Peter Weir Filmography

Born:: August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Peter Lindsay Weir
Biography:: Known for making moody, complex dramas that often focus on the emotional struggles of men caught up in social change and/or upheaval, Australian director Peter Weir is regarded as one of the most solid directors in both his native country and in Hollywood. His many accomplishments include making...Read More

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Lee Ingleby

Synopsis: Director Peter Weir's first turn behind the camera since 1998's critically acclaimed The Truman Show, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is based on two Napoleanic War-era adventure novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Master and Commander and The Far Side of the Read More

11/14/03
The Truman Show

Crew: Director

Actors: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone

Synopsis: Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life Read More

6/5/98
Fearless

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Hulce, John Turturro

Synopsis: Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias from his own novel, Fearless explores the complex struggle back to mental health of post-traumatic stress disorder victim Max Klein (Jeff Bridges). One of few survivors of a fatal plane crash, Klein remains calm and assists other survivors out of the burning Read More

1993
Green Card

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: Green Card fuses the template of a light romantic comedy with a classic fish-out-of-water scenario. In order to retain her beautiful rent-controlled Manhattan apartment, a beautiful, socially-conscious American woman (Andie MacDowell) has to be married, so she decides to marry a burly French Read More

12/23/90
Dead Poets Society

Crew: Director

Actors: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen

Synopsis: Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process Read More

6/2/89
The Mosquito Coast

Crew: Director

Actors: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Hilary Gordon

Synopsis: Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Read More

11/26/86
Witness

Crew: Director

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: In Peter Weir's thriller Witness, Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy, witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. Harrison Ford stars as John Book, the police detective investigating the murder. When Book discovers that the crime was part of a conspiracy involving several Read More

1985
The Year of Living Dangerously

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own Read More

1982
Gallipoli

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Harold Hopkins, Ronny Graham, Stan Green

Synopsis: The first of two consecutive films to see director Peter Weir team with Mel Gibson (the other being The Year of Living Dangerously), Gallipoli follows two idealistic young friends, Frank (Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee), who join the Australian army during World War I and fight the doomed Battle of Read More

1981
The Plumber

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Judy Morris, Robert Coleby, Ivar Kants, Candy Raymond

Synopsis: The plumber (Ivar Kants) shows up at the door of well-to-do Australian couple Robert Coleby and Judy Cowper. Though the plumber apparently hasn't been summoned, he is given unquestioned free reign in the household. He ends up staying several days, his work and personality growing weirder with each Read More

1979
The Last Wave

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Nadjiwarra Amagula

Synopsis: Peter Weir follows up on his critically acclaimed masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock with this surrealist psychological drama. The film opens with a freak hailstorm in Australia's outback. Cut to David Burton (Richard Chamberlain), a well-to-do Sydney corporate lawyer plagued by visions of Read More

1977
Picnic at Hanging Rock

Crew: Director

Actors: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child

Synopsis: Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding Read More

1975
The Cars That Ate Paris

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Metcalfe, Frank Saba, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Melissa Jaffer, Kevin Miles, Max Gillies

Synopsis: This first effort from acclaimed writer/director Peter Weir is set in the secluded rural town of Paris, Australia, where the chief source of income is provided by the orchestration of automobile accidents -- which frequently claim the lives of passing tourists, though those who survive are usually Read More

1974
Three to Go

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Colville, Rina Ioannou, Andrew Pappas, Georgina West

Synopsis: This Australian trilogy chronicles the lives of three very different young adults. In the first vignette, "Michael," an impressionable office worker becomes interested in the hippie movement after he sees a film on guerrilla warfare. In "Judy," a young woman desires to leave her dull life in a Read More

1971