Peter Greenaway
Directing
Born: 1942-04-05 · Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
Biography
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early period culminated in "The Falls" (1980), a three-hour mockumentary indexing the strange effects of the VUE (the Violent Unknown Event) on 92 people whose names begin with the letters F-A-L-L. He made his
🎬 Movies (20)
Ritratti di cinema
2025
Self
Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect
2023
Himself
The Missing Nail
2019
(voice)
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019
Self
The Greenaway Alphabet
2018
Peter Greenaway
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
2016
The Wedding at Cana
2009
Some characters (uncredited)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
2008
Himself / Public Prosecutor
Close to Greenaway
2004
Self
Cinema16: British Short Films
2003
Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
2002
Himself
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
1999
Narrator
8 ½ Women
1999
(uncredited)
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
1992
Himself
Fear of Drowning
1989
Himself
Hubert Bals Handshake
1989
Narrator
The Falls
1982
Interviewer
Dear Phone
1976
Narrator
Windows
1974
Narrator
H Is for House
1973
(voice)
