Greenaway, Peter 1942–

PERSONAL

Born April 5, 1942, in Newport, Wales; father, a builder's merchant, mother, a teacher; married Carol (a potter; divorced, 1999); children: Hannah, Jessica. Education: Studied painting and art history at Walthamstow College of Art.

Addresses: Office—The Vue, 387b King St., London W6 9NH England.

Career: Director, screenwriter, film editor, and painter. British Film Institute, caretaker, beginning in 1965; British Government Central Office of Information, director and editor of documentaries, 1965–76. First exhibited paintings at Lords Gallery, 1964; art work has been exhibited at the Louvre (Paris) and at locations around the world, including Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Australia, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, and the United States.

Awards, Honors: Hugo Award, Chicago Film Festival, 1978, for A Walk Through H; Hugo Award, documentary section, Chicago Film Festival, 1981, for Zandra Rhodes; British Film Institute Award and L'Age d'Or Brussels, 1981, both for The Falls; Melbourne Film Festival Award, best short film, Sydney Film Festival Award, best short film, 1981, both for Act of God; International Fantasy Film Award nomination, best film, Fantasporto, 1984, for The Draughtsman's Contract; Golden Palm Award nomination, Cannes Film Festival, Artistic Merit Award, Chicago Film Festival, 1987, both for The Belly of an Architect; Golden Palm Award, best artistic contribution, Cannes International Film Festival, Golden Palm Award nomination, Cannes International Film Festival, Audience Award, Warsaw International Film Festival, 1988, Golden Space Needle Award, best director, Seattle International Film Festival, 1991, all for Drowning by Numbers; Best Director Award, Cata-lonian International Film Festival, Independent Spirit Award nomination, best foreign film, 1989, International Fantasy Film Award nomination, best film, Fan-tasporto, 1990, all for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover; two prizes from Festival International du Nouveau Cinema et de la Video, 1990, for A TV Dante; Special Award, Evening Standard British Film Awards, 1990; International Fantasy Film Award nomination, best film, Fantasporto, Golden Lion Award nomination, Venice Film Festival, 1991, Audience Award, Warsaw International Film Festival, ALFS Award, British technical achievement of the year, London Critics Circle Film Awards, 1992, all for Prospero's Books; Dance Screen Award, 1992, for Rosa; Le Distinction Glace Gervais, Cannes International Film Festival, 1995, Best Film Award, Catalonian International Film Festival, 1996, Golden Space Needle Award, best director, Seattle International Film Festival, 1997, all for The Pillow Book; Honorary Award, Istanbul International Film Festival, 1997; Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, French government, 1998; Golden Palm Award nomination, Cannes Film Festival, 1999, for Eight and a Half Women; Joseph Plateau Award of Honour, 1999; Time-Machine Honorary Award, Catalonian International Film Festival, 2001; Golden Palm Award nomination, Cannes Film Festival, 2003, for The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story; Honorary Golden Alexander, Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2004.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Death of Sentiment, 1962.

Train, 1966.

Tree, 1966.

Revolution, 1967.

5 Postcards from Capital Cities, 1967.

Intervals, British Film Institute, 1969.

Erosion, 1971.

H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973.

Windows, British Film Institute, 1975.

Water, 1975.

Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975.

Goole by Numbers, 1976.

Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977.

1-100, 1978.

A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978.

Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978.

Eddie Kid, 1978.

Cut Above the Rest, 1978.

Women Artists, 1979.

Leeds Castle, 1979.

Zandra Rhodes (documentary), Central Office of Information, 1979.

Lacock Village, 1980.

The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983.

Country Diary, 1980.

Terence Conran (also known as Insight: Terence Conran), 1981.

The Draughtsman's Contract, British Film Institute, 1982, released in the United States by United Artists Classics, 1983.

The Coastline (also known as The Sea in Their Blood), 1983.

Making a Splash, National Film Archive, 1984.

"Modern American Composers 1: Cage and Monk" and "Modern American Composers 2: Glass and Ashley," Four American Composers (documentary), Trans Atlantic Films/Channel Four, 1984.

Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms (also known as Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London and Oxfordshire, 1985 and 26 Bathrooms), Channel 4, 1985.

A TV Dante Canto 5, 1985.

A Zed and Two Noughts (also known as Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts), British Film Institute, 1985, released in the United States by Skouras, 1985.

The Belly of an Architect (also known as Il Ventre dell'architetto), Hemdale, 1987.

Drowning by Numbers, Prestige Films/Miramax, 1988.

Fear of Drowning, Channel 4, 1988.

(With Tom Phillips) A TV Dante Cantos 1-8, Rainer Moritz, 1989.

Hubert Bals Handshake, Allarts Enterprises, 1989.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (also known as Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme, et son amant and Spica), Miramax, 1989.

Prospero's Books (also known as L'Ultima tempesta), Miramax, 1991.

Rosa (opera), Argos, 1992.

The Baby of Macon (also known as Das Wunder von Macon), Cine Electra, 1993.

The Stairs, Geneva (documentary; also known as Stairs 1 Geneva), 1994.

The Pillow Book, CFP Distribution, 1995.

(With thirty-nine other contemporary directors) Lumiere et compagnie (documentary; also known as Lumiere and Company and Lumiere y compania), Fox Lorber, 1995.

The Bridge (opera), Cine 360, 1997.

Death of a Composer (also known as The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama), NVC Arts, 1999.

Eight and a Half Woman (also known as 8 1/2 Women), Lions Gate Films, 1999.

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (also known as Death of a Composer), 1999.

The Man in the Bath, 2001.

Cinema16: British Short Films (films shorts), 2003.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1: The Moab Story (also known as Las Maletas de Tulse Luper: La historia de Moab and Le Valigie di Tulse Luper—La Storia di Moab), A-Film Distribution, 2003.

The Tulse Luuper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish, 2003.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea, A-Film Distribution, 2004.

"European Showerbath," Visions of Europe (also known as Europaisch Visionen), 2004.

A Life in Suitcases, 2005.

Nightwatch, 2006.

Film Cinematographer:

H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973.

Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975.

Windows, British Film Institute, 1975.

Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977.

(Uncredited) Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978.

Film Editor:

Love Love Love, 1968.

H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973.

Windows, British Film Institute, 1975.

Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975.

Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977.

A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978.

(Uncredited) Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978.

The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983.

The Pillow Book, CFP Distribution, 1995.

Film Producer:

Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978.

A Zed and Two Noughts (also known as Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts), British Film Institute, 1985, released in the United States by Skouras, 1985.

Film Work; Other:

Production designer and maps, A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978.

(Uncredited) Drawings: Mr. Neville and hand double: Anthony Higgins, The Draughtsman's Contract, British Film Institute, 1982, released in the United States by United Artists Classics, 1983.

(Uncredited) Sculptor: Prospero's books, Prospero's Books (also known as L'Ultima tempesta), Miramax, 1991.

Stage director, The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (also known as Death of a Composer), 1999.

Film Appearances:

Voice, H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973.

Narrator, Windows, British Film Institute, 1975.

Narrator, Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977.

The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983.

Narrator, Fear of Drowning, Channel 4, 1988.

Narrator, Hubert Bals Handshake, Allarts Enterprises, 1989.

Narrator, The Stairs, Geneva (also known as Stairs 1 Geneva), 1994.

Narrator, La Cosmologia di Piazza del Popolo, 1996.

Himself, Peter Greenaway in Indianapolis (documentary; also known as An Evening with Peter Green-away), 1997.

Narrator, Death of a Composer (also known as The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama), NVC Arts, 1999.

Eight and a Half Woman (also known as 8 1/2 Woman), Lions Gate Films, 1999.

Voice of commentary, "Dear Phone," Cinema 16: British Short Films, 2003.

Television Director; Movies:

Death in the Seine (also known as Les Morts de la Seine), 1988.

Darwin, Film Office, 1992.

Television Director; Specials:

Act of God (documentary), Thames, 1981.

A TV Dante: The Inferno Cantos I-VIII (also known as A TV Dante), 1989.

M Is for Man, Music, Mozart (also known as Not Mozart), Rainer Moritz, 1991.

A Walk through Prospero's Library, 1991.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Himself, "Segment 1: The Films That Shocked Britain," X-rated, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Himself, Cinema mil, 2005.

Stage Director:

Rosa: A Horse Drama, De Nederlandse Opera, 1995.

Christopher Columbus, Staatoper, Berlin, Germany, 1998.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Death of Sentiment, 1962.

Train, 1966.

Tree, 1966.

Revolution, 1967.

5 Postcards from Capital Cities, 1967.

Love Love Love, 1968.

Intervals, British Film Institute, 1969.

Erosion, 1971.

H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973.

Windows, British Film Institute, 1975.

Water, 1975.

Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975.

Goole by Numbers, 1976.

Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977.

1-100, 1978.

A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk through H: The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978.

Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978.

The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983.

The Draughtsman's Contract, British Film Institute, 1982, released in the United States by United Artists Classics, 1983.

"Modern American Composers 1: Cage and Monk" and "Modern American Composers 2: Glass and Ashley," Four American Composers (documentary), Trans Atlantic Films/Channel Four, 1984.

A Zed and Two Noughts (also known as Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts), British Film Institute, 1985, released in the United States by Skouras, 1985, published by Faber and Faber (London), 1986.

The Belly of an Architect (also known as Il Ventre dell'architetto), Hemdale, 1987.

Drowning by Numbers, Prestige Films/Miramax, 1988, published by Faber, 1988.

Fear of Drowning, Channel 4, 1988.

Hubert Bals Handshake, Allarts Enterprises, 1989.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (also known as Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme, et son amant and Spica), Miramax, 1989.

Prospero's Books (also known as L'Ultima tempesta; based on The Tempest by William Shakespeare), Miramax, 1991, published by Four Walls Eight Windows (New York City), 1991.

The Baby of Macon (also known as Das Wunder von Macon), Cine Electra, 1993.

The Pillow Book, CFP Distribution, 1995.

Peter Greenaway in Indianapolis (also known as An Evening with Peter Greenaway), 1997.

Eight and a Half Woman (also known as 8 1/2 Women), Lions Gate Films, 1999.

(And libretto) Death of a Composer (also known as The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama), NVC Arts, 1999.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1: The Moab Story (also known as Las Maletas de Tulse Luper: La historia de Moab and Le Valigie di Tulse Luper—La Storia di Moab), A-Film Distribution, 2003.

The Tulse Luuper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish, 2003.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea, A-Film Distribution, 2004.

"European Showerbath," Visions of Europe (also known as Europaisch Visionen), 2004.

A Life in Suitcases, 2005.

Nightwatch, 2006.

Television Movies:

Death in the Seine (also known as Les Morts de la Seine), 1988.

Darwin, Film Office, 1992.

Television Specials:

Zandra Rhodes, Central Office of Information, 1979.

M Is for Man, Music, Mozart (also known as Not Mozart), Rainer Moritz, 1991.

Opera Librettos:

Rosa: A Horse Drama, De Nederlandse Opera, 1995.

Writing to Vermeer, De Nederlandse Opera, 1999.

Books:

Papers/Papiers, Editions Dis Voir (Paris), 1990.

The Physical Self: A Selection by Peter Greenaway from the Selections of the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Museum (Rotterdam, Netherlands), 1991.

Rosa, Editions Dis Voir, 1993.

Flying out of This World (art selections), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1994.

(With Leon Steinmetz) The World of Peter Greenaway, Journey Editions, 1995.

Also wrote Gold (a novel).

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Barchfeld, Christiane, Filming by Numbers, Peter Greenaway, Narr (Tuebingen, Germany), 1993.

Caux, Daniel and others, Peter Greenaway, 1987.

Contemporary Authors, Volume 127, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1989.

Gras, Vernon W., Peter Greenaway Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Volume 2: Directors, 4th ed., St. James Press, 2000.

Lawrence, Amy, The Films of Peter Greenaway, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Melia, Paul, and Alan Woods, Peter Greenaway, Manchester University Press, 1999.

Pascoe, Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images, Reaktion Books, 1997.

Steinmetz, Leon, The World of Peter Greenaway, Journey Editions (Boston, MA), 1995.

Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula, and Mary Alemany-Galway, Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Post-structuralist Cinema, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Woods, Alan, Being Naked—Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway, St. Martin's (New York City), 1996.

Periodicals:

American Cinematographer, September, 1983.

American Film, November-December, 1991.

Chicago Tribune, July 13, 1997, p. 6.

Film Comment, January-February, 1982; May-June, 1990, p. 54.

Harper's Bazaar, November, 1991.

Interview, March, 1990, p. 120.

New York Times, April 1, 1990, p. H27; April 26, 1991, p. C7.

Sight and Sound, summer, 1987.