Peter Greenaway

Director, Writer, Editor

Birthdate: Apr 5, 1942

Birthplace: Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK

Peter Greenaway trained as a painter and began working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information in 1965. Shortly afterwards he started to make his own films. He has produced a wealth of short and feature-length films, but also paintings, novels and other books. He has held several one-man shows and curated exhibitions at museums world-wide.

Known For

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

(1989)

Nightwatching
Nightwatching

(2007)

Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers

(1988)

Peter Greenaway Movies

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  • 2019 |
    Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice
  • 2017 |
    Jardins, Paradis des artistesas Peter Greenaway
  • 2017 |
    The Greenaway Alphabet
  • 2016 |
    The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
  • 2015 |
    Der grausame Gott? Gewalt, Religion und Kunst
  • 2013 |
    3x3D
  • 2013 |
    European Graduate School: Digital Video Diary-August 2008
  • 2012 |
    Goltzius and The Pelican Company
  • 2008 |
    Chaos and Order
  • 2008 |
    Rembrandt's J'Accuse
  • 2007 |
    Nightwatching
  • 2007 |
    Phoenix - Fliegt
  • 2005 |
    A Life in Suitcases
  • 2004 |
    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
  • 2004 |
    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
  • 2003 |
    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
  • 2003 |
    The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
  • 1999 |
    8 ½ Women
  • 1995 |
    The Pillow Book
  • 1996 |
    La cosmologia di Piazza del Popoloas Narrator
  • 1994 |
    Stairs 1 Genevaas Narrator
  • 1993 |
    The Baby of Mâcon
  • 1991 |
    Prospero's Books
  • 1988 |
    Drowning by Numbers
  • 1989 |
    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • 1987 |
    The Belly of an Architect
  • 1985 |
    A Zed & Two Noughts
  • 1982 |
    The Draughtsman's Contract
  • 1980 |
    The Falls

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  • 2015 |

    Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Peter Greenaway: Biography, Movies, Net Worth & Photos