Personal Info
Known Credits
11
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1944-08-21 (81 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Also Known For
Peter Weir
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 ...
Known For
Acting
2023 --
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
| Self
2019 --
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
| Self
2011 --
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
| Self
2005 --
Entrenched: The Making of 'Gallipoli'
| Self
2004 --
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
| Self
2004 --
The Hundred Days
| Self
1980 --
Walkabout to Hollywood
| Self
1975 --
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
| Self
1971 --
Homesdale
| Robert 2
1968 --
The Life and Flight of the Reverend Buck Shotte
| Buck
1968 --
Count Vim's Last Exercise
| Mr. Thin