Peter Weir

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Personal Info

Known for

Directing

From

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Born

8/21/1944

Age

80

Credit(s)

10

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 ...Show More