Peter Greenaway

WriterActorDirectorProducerDirecting Apr 5 (age 83) Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK 1962–2025 (63 year career)

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Biography

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early period culminated in "The Falls" (1980), a three-hour mockumentary indexing the strange effects of the VUE (the Violent Unknown Event) on 92 people whose names begin with the letters F-A-L-L. He made his…

Known For

Film

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Director

Film

The Draughtsman's Contract

Director

Film

Drowning by Numbers

Director

Film

A Zed & Two Noughts

Director

Film

The Belly of an Architect

Director

Film

The Pillow Book

Director

Film

The Baby of Mâcon

Director

Film

Prospero's Books

Director

Filmography

Acting (21)

Movies (20)

Ritratti di cinema

2025

as Self

Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect

2023

as Himself

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

2019

as Self

8.1

The Missing Nail

2019

as (voice)

The Greenaway Alphabet

2018

as Peter Greenaway

6.1

The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

2016

5.0

The Wedding at Cana

2009

as Some characters (uncredited)

10.0

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

2008

as Himself / Public Prosecutor

6.7

Close to Greenaway

2004

as Self

Cinema16: British Short Films

2003

as Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)

4.6

The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway

2002

as Himself

8 ½ Women

1999

as (uncredited)

5.4

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

1999

as Narrator

3.3

Peter Greenaway: A Documentary

1992

as Himself

Fear of Drowning

1989

as Himself

5.0

Hubert Bals Handshake

as Narrator

The Falls

as Interviewer

H Is for House

as (voice)

Dear Phone

as Narrator

Windows

as Narrator

Television (1)

Kulturplatz

2004

as Self

6.0

Crew (147)

Movies (146)

Blondi

2025

Writer

Hotel Royalty Since 1887

2021

Director

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

2019

Producer

8.1

The Missing Nail

2019

Director

The Missing Nail

2019

Writer

Luther and His Legacy

2017

Director

6.0

Giovanna D'Arco

2016

Director

Giovanna D'Arco

2016

Stage Director

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

2015

Director

6.1

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Screenplay

3x3D

Director

3x3D

Writer

Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth

2012

Director

6.7

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

2012

Director

6.1

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

Writer

The Wedding at Cana

Director

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

2008

Director

6.7

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

Screenplay

Peopling The Palaces

Director

Nightwatching

Director

Nightwatching

Writer

Greenaway: The Shorts

2006

Director

Greenaway: The Shorts

2006

Writer

Writing on Water

Director

Writing on Water

Writer

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

2005

Director

5.3

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

2005

Writer

5.3

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish

2005

Director

4.9

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish

Writer

Visions of Europe

Director

Visions of Europe

Writer

The European Showerbath

2004

Director

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

2004

Director

4.6

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

2004

Writer

4.6

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp

2003

Director

3.3

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp

2003

Writer

3.3

Cinema16: British Short Films

2003

Director

4.6

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

2003

Director

5.1

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

2003

Writer

5.1

The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway

2002

Director

The Man in the Bath

2001

Director

8 ½ Women

Director

8 ½ Women

Screenplay

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

1999

Director

3.3

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

1999

Stage Director

3.3

The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

1999

Writer

3.3

In the Dark

1996

Director

The Pillow Book

Director

The Pillow Book

Editor

The Pillow Book

Writer

Lumière & Company

Director

Stairs 1 Geneva

Director

The Baby of Mâcon

Director

The Baby of Mâcon

Writer

A Walk Through Prospero's Library

1992

Director

Peter Greenaway: A Documentary

1992

Director

Darwin

Director

Darwin

Writer

Rosa

Director

M Is for Man, Music and Mozart

1991

Director

4.6

M Is for Man, Music and Mozart

Writer

Prospero's Books

Director

Prospero's Books

Screenplay

A TV Dante

Director

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989

Director

7.3

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Screenplay

Fear of Drowning

Director

Death in the Seine

Director

Hubert Bals Handshake

Director

Drowning by Numbers

Director

Drowning by Numbers

Writer

The Belly of an Architect

1987

Director

6.8

The Belly of an Architect

1987

Writer

6.8

Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire

Director

A Zed & Two Noughts

Director

A Zed & Two Noughts

Writer

Making a Splash

Director

The Sea in Their Blood

1983

Director

6.7

The Sea in Their Blood

1983

Writer

6.7

Four American Composers: John Cage

1983

Director

Four American Composers: John Cage

1983

Writer

Four American Composers: Philip Glass

1983

Director

7.3

Four American Composers: Philip Glass

1983

Writer

7.3

Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

1983

Director

Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

1983

Writer

Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

1983

Director

Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

1983

Writer

The Draughtsman's Contract

1982

Director

7.0

The Draughtsman's Contract

Screenplay

The Pledge

Editor

The Falls

Director

The Falls

Editor

The Falls

Writer

Zandra Rhodes

Director

Zandra Rhodes

Screenplay

The Exile

Director

Terence Conran

Director

Act of God

Director

Leeds Castle

Director

Vertical Features Remake

1978

Director

7.2

Vertical Features Remake

1978

Director of Photography

7.2

Vertical Features Remake

1978

Editor

7.2

Vertical Features Remake

Writer

Water Wrackets

Director

Water Wrackets

Director of Photography

Water Wrackets

Editor

Water Wrackets

Writer

Eddie Kidd

Director

Eddie Kidd

Editor

A Walk Through H

Director

A Walk Through H

Editor

A Walk Through H

Scenic Artist

A Walk Through H

Writer

Goole by Numbers

Director

Goole by Numbers

1976

Writer

H Is for House

1976

Director

6.1

H Is for House

1976

Director of Photography

H Is for House

Editor

H Is for House

Writer

Dear Phone

Director

Dear Phone

Director of Photography

Dear Phone

Editor

Dear Phone

Writer

1-100

Director

1-100

1976

Writer

Savile Row

1976

Director

Windows

Director

Windows

Editor

Windows

Writer

Intervals

Director

Intervals

Writer

Erosion

Director

Revolution

1968

Director

6.0

5 Postcards from Capital Cities

1967

Director

Tree

1966

Director

Train

1966

Director

5.2

Death of Sentiment

1962

Director

Tower Stories

Director

Tower Stories

Writer

Walking to Paris

Director

Walking to Paris

Writer

Tie and Dye

Editor

The Food of Love

Director

The Food of Love

Writer

Bosch

Director

Bosch

Writer

Television (1)

A TV Dante

1990

Director

7.0