Peter Weir
Birthday
1944/08/21 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Also know as
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Biography
Peter Lindsay Weir AM (born August 21, 1944) is a retired Australian film director. He is known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and The Way Back (2010). He has received six Academy Award nominations, ultimately being awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 2022 for...Read more
Acting
(1980) Walkabout to Hollywood
as Self
(2005) Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'
as Self
(1971) Homesdale
as Robert 2
(2004) The Hundred Days
as Self
(2011) Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
as Self
(2023) Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
as Self
(1975) A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
as Self
(2019) Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
as Self
(2004) A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
as Self
(1968) The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
as Buck
(1968) Count Vim's Last Exercise
as Mr. Thin
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self