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