biography
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Weir, Peter (Lindsay)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1944– )
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied at Sydney University, joined a local television station in 1967, and began directing short films with Count Vim's Last Exercise (1967). His first feature film was The Cars that Ate Paris (1974), but he came to the forefront of the Australian film industry with the languid ghost story Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Gallipoli (1980). He then moved to America, and had international success with Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989, BAFTA best film), Green Card (1990), Fearless (1993), and The Truman Show (1998, BAFTA best director). |
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