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Biography details

Name:

Peter Weir

Born

1944


Details

Born as: Peter Lindsay Weir.
Place of Birth: Sydney, Australia.
Occupation: Director (d), SCreenwriter (sc).
Education: University of Sydney (Art, Law).

Filmography:
1970 Three To Go (d, sc -- "Michael")
1973 Whatever Happened To Green Valley? (d).
1974 The Cars That Ate Paris / Cars That Eat People (d, sc, story).
1975 Picnic At Hanging Rock (d).
1977 The Last Wave (d, idea).
1980 The Plumber (d, sc).
1981 Gallipoli (d, idea).
1983 The Year Of Living Dangerously (d, sc).
1985 Witness (d).
1986 The Mosquito Coast (d).
1989 Dead Poets Society (d).
1990 Green Card (producer, d, sc).
1993 Fearless (d).
1998 The Truman Show (d).


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  1. A Black Success for a Bright Young Director. (Article)
    Name: Colin Bennett
    Monday, October 14, 1974.
  2. A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films (Book)
    Name: Kim Newman
    1988
  3. A Director Tries Out a Fantasy While He Questions Reality (Article)
    Name: Bernard Weinraub
    May 21, 1998
  4. A life in the day of an actor (Article)
    Name: Denise Everton
    September 25, 1998
  5. A world of his own (Article)
    Name: Susan Turpie
    Saturday, October 3, 1998
  6. All the world's a stage (Article)
    Name: Clark Forbes
    Sunday, September 27, 1998
  7. An Australian Cultural Synthesis: Wayang, The Hollywood Romance, and The Year Of Living Dangerously (Article)
    Name: Rodney Farnsworth
    v.XXIV, n.4, October, 1996
  8. An Australian Film Reader (Book)
    Name: Albert Moran Tom O'Regan (edit)
    1985
  9. Art Directing History: The Period Film (Article)
    Name: Graeme Turner
    1989
  10. Bi-Cultural Visions: The Films of Monica Pellizzari (Article)
    Name: Mary Colbert
    n.117 June 1997
  11. Bob Ellis (Article)
    Name: Peter Hamilton Sue Mathews
    1986
  12. Car Culture Drama Crashes Boundaries (Article)
    Name: Lynden Barber
    Friday, February 24, 1995.
  13. Chapter 5: Action and Adventure (Article)
    Name: Susan Dermody
    1980
  14. Characterisation and Individualism (Article)
    Name: Graeme Turner
    1986
  15. Chicago Sun-Times (http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1998/06/060522.html)
    Name: Roger Ebert
    1998
  16. Cinema for the Cerebral (Article)
    Name: Sheila Johnston
    Sunday, March 28, 1999
  17. Cringe No More (Article)
    Name: Janet Hawley
    October 8, 1994
  18. Developing pictures: Australian cinema (1970-1995) (Article)
    Name: Peter Kemp
    1995
  19. Dialogue on Film: Peter Weir (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    March 1986
  20. Film noir to film deadpan (Article)
    Name: David Thomson
    Saturday, August 1, 1998
  21. Film of the decade (Article)
    Name: David Gibbs
    July 4, 1998
  22. For the Media's Dupes, Perhaps Thinking Makes It So (Article)
    Name: Edward Rothstein
    June 8, 1998
  23. Formative Landscapes (Article)
    Name: Ross Gibson
    1988
  24. Forward to a Fairly Liberated Future (Article)
    Name: Bob Ellis
    v.4. n 5 - 11 July, 1974.
  25. Forward to a Fairly Liberated Future (Article)
    Name: Bob Ellis
    v.4. n 5 - 11 July, 1974.
  26. Forward to a Fairly Liberated Future (Article)
    Name: Bob Ellis
    v.4. n 5 - 11 July, 1974.
  27. Forward to a Fairly Liberated Future (Article)
    Name: Bob Ellis
    v.4. n 5 - 11 July, 1974.
  28. Forward to a fairly liberated future. (Article)
    Name: Bob Ellis
    v.4,5-11 July 1974.
  29. French Connection (Article)
    Name: Kitty Bowe Hearty
    Febraury 1991
  30. Gallipoli (Article)
    Name: Sylvia Lawson
    November/December 1981
  31. George Miller, interviewed by Scott Murray (Article)
    Name: Scott Murray
    1988
  32. Green Card (Article)
    Name: Geoff Mayer
    no.82 March 1990
  33. Green Card (Article)
    Name: Judy Stone
    11 January, 1991
  34. Green Card made for colourful Depardieu (Article)
    Name: Judy Stone
    6 January 1991
  35. Growing up with the stars (Article)
    Name: David Malouf
    March 13, 1999
  36. He's blessedly restrained in comic fairy tale about everyman whose life is a TV show (Article)
    Name: Barbara Shulgasser
    June 5, 1998
  37. His Show of Shows (Article)
    Name: Kenneth Turan
    June 5, 1998
  38. Hollywood gets Weird (Article)
    Name: Helen Barlow
    Friday, October 2, 1998
  39. Hollywood's last illusion dies: TV isn't reality (Article)
    Name: Paul Byrnes
    September 24, 1998
  40. How Cars Was Put Into Gear (Article)
    Name: Sandra Hall
    v.96. September 7, 1974
  41. Internet Movie Database Entry (http://www10.pair.com/crazydv/weir/cars/index.html)
    Name: Author Unknown
    n.d.
  42. Interview with Peter Weir (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    v.11. n.5. March, 1986 1986
  43. John Duigan (Article)
    Name: Jonathan Romney
    n.1105 October 23-30, 1991
  44. John Duigan's Moral Tales (Article)
    Name: Christina Thompson
    n. 1967 January 1988
  45. Judas Clause may lift film industry : Ellis urges drastic action (Article)
    Name: Bob Ellis
    Wednesday, December 28, 1994.
  46. Keep the budgets low, create our own stars (Article)
    Name: Tina Kaufman,
    Vol.11 Issue No. 9 October 1991
  47. Life at 125 beats a minute (Article)
    Name: Ruth Hessey
    Friday 14 August 1998
  48. Life is a cathode ray (Article)
    Name: Susie Eisenhuth
    Tuesday, September 29, 1998
  49. Life is a television show (Article)
    Name: Des Partridge
    Saturday, September 26, 1998
  50. Live to Air (Article)
    Name: Samantha Clode
    October 1998
  51. Married to a US Work Visa (Article)
    Name: Peter Simunovich
    Wednesday, 12 June, 1991
  52. More to Digest than Popcorn: An Interview with Peter Weir (Article)
    Name: Dan Lybarger
    June 4 - 10, 1998
  53. Movie violence can turn children into killers : Weir (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    1999
  54. Mr Showbiz (http://mrshowbiz.go.com/interviews/415_1.html)
    Name: Jenny Peters
    n.d.
  55. Nationalism in Australian Cinema (Article)
    Name: Anne B. Hutton
    Volume 26, 1980 1980
  56. New and wonderful and different (Article)
    Name: Rex Reed
    March 5, 1979
  57. No Title (Article)
    Name: Jill Kitson
    24/10/81
  58. On with the show (Article)
    Name: Mark Hinson
    October 1, 1998
  59. Onion, Inc. (http://www.theavclub.com/avclub3321/bonusfeature13321.html)
    Name: Joshua Klein
    n.d.
  60. Our cinematic rite of passage (Article)
    Name: Anna-Maria Dell'oso
    Sunday, October 11, 1987
  61. Our cinematic rite of passage (Article)
    Name: Anna-Maria Dell'oso
    Sunday, October 11, 1987
  62. Part One 'On the Brink: A New Start' (Article)
    Name: Brian McFarlane
    1987
  63. Part Two: The First Phase (1970 - 75) The Prototype Emerges (Article)
    Name: Susan Dermody Elizabeth Jacka
    1986
  64. Personal Relationships and Sexuality (Article)
    Name: Meaghan Morris
    1980
  65. Peter Weir (Article)
    Name: Katherine Tulich
    no.80 August, 1990
  66. Peter Weir (Article)
    Name: Christian Viviani
    n.314. April, 1987 1987
  67. Peter Weir and the Cinema of New Age Humanism (Article)
    Name: Gary Hentzi
    2-12
  68. Peter Weir and the Cinema of New Age Humanism (Article)
    Name: Gary Hentzi
    Winter 1990/91
  69. Peter Weir's Enigma (Article)
    Name: Tom Allen
    February 26, 1979
  70. Picnicking with Weir (Article)
    Name: Mike Harris
    August 30, 1975
  71. Plans Bizarre Movies (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    June 4, 1974.
  72. Prisoner in a Fishbowl (Article)
    Name: Leigh Paatsch
    September 24, 1998
  73. Production Report: The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Gordon Glenn Scott Murray
    January 1974
  74. Production Report: The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Gordon Glenn Scott Murray
    January 1974.
  75. Production Report: The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Gordon Glenn Scott Murray
    January 1974.
  76. Racy Fiction on Four Wheels (Article)
    Name: Andrew McKay
    October 15, 1974.
  77. Raymond Stanley talks to Peter Weir (Article)
    Name: Raymond Stanley
    Saturday, January 7, 1978
  78. Remote Control Jim Carrey is a born TV star in "The Truman Show" (Article)
    Name: Edward Guthmann
    Friday, June 5, 1998
  79. Renaissance of the Feature (Article)
    Name: Albert Moran Tom O'Regan (edit)
  80. Review of the book "The Films of Peter Weir: visions of alternate realities" (Article)
    Name: Matt Mueller
    n.48 June, 1993 1993
  81. Road Movies: The Complete Guide to Cinema on Wheels. (Book)
    Name: Mark Williams
    1982
  82. Smile! Your Life's on TV (Article)
    Name: Richard Corliss
    Monday, September 28, 1998
  83. So, what's wrong with this picture? (Article)
    Name: Janet Maslin
    June 5, 1998
  84. The Australian Cultural Synthesis: Wayang, The Hollywood Romance, and The Year of Living Dangerously (Article)
    Name: Rodney Farnsworth
    XXIV/4, October 1996
  85. The Avocado Plantation Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry (Book)
    Name: David Stratton
  86. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Geoff Brown
    v.44, n.3, Summer 1975.
  87. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Janet Hawley
    June 6, 1973.
  88. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Janet Hawley
    June 6, 1973.
  89. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Janet Hawley
    June 6, 1973.
  90. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    July, 1974.
  91. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    July, 1974.
  92. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    July, 1974.
  93. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Raymond Stanley
    v.275. n.7 June 26, 1974.
  94. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Geoff Brown
    v. 44. n.3 Summer, 1975.
  95. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Phillip Strick
    v.42. n.496 May, 1975.
  96. The Cars that Ate Paris (Article)
    Name: Phillip Strick
    v.42. n.496 May, 1975.
  97. The Screen Guide (Article)
    Name: Peter Travers
    October 1998
  98. The Truman Show (Article)
    Name: Rob Lowing
    September 27, 1998
  99. The Truman Show (Article)
    Name: Tom Ryan
    September 27, 1998
  100. Theater of the Observed: In "Truman Show", the Camera Never Sleeps. Good Thing. This Is One to Watch. (Article)
    Name: Rita Kempley
    June 5, 1998
  101. Thru a Lens Darkly (Article)
    Name: J. Hoberman
    June 9, 1998
  102. Thursday's Child (Article)
    Name: Tom Allen
    August 6, 1980
  103. Trapped in a soap bubble (Article)
    Name: Evan Williams
    Saturday, September 26, 1998
  104. Truman a poor show (Article)
    Name: Jim Schembri
    September 25, 1998
  105. Truman is "on the air" but unaware (Article)
    Name: David Ellery
    Thursday, October 1, 1998
  106. Truman's reality (Article)
    Name: Rene Rodriguez
    November 12, 1998
  107. Untitled Brief Review (Article)
    Name: Author Unknown
    n.171/172 July/August 1975.
  108. Weir and weirder as Carrey turns serious (Article)
    Name: Vicky Roach
    September 24, 1998
  109. Weir and Wonderful (Article)
    Name: Mary Colbert
    September 9, 1998
  110. Weir's buck stops here (Article)
    Name: Adrian Martin
    September 24, 1998
  111. Weir's New Trump Card (Article)
    Name: Jenny Cooney
    Saturday, 9 Febraury, 1991
  112. Weir, weird and weirder still (Article)
    Name: David Castell
    November 1976
  113. When will majors let oz audiences see oz short films? (Article)
    Name: Independent Film Lobby
  1. Gallipoli
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: Robert Stigwood Patricia Lovell
  2. Green Card
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: Peter Weir Jean Gontier
  3. Homesdale
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: 
  4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: 
  5. The Cars that Ate Paris
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: Howard (Hal) McElroy Jim McElroy
  6. The Last Wave
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: Hal McElroy Jim McElroy
  7. The Truman Show
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: Edward S. Feldman Andrew Niccol Lynn Pleshette (executive) Richard Luke Rothschild (co-producer) Scott Rudin Adam Schroeder
  8. The Year of Living Dangerously
    Director: Peter Weir
    Producer: Jim McElroy

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