Peter Weir
Peter Weir (b. August 21, 1944) is an Australian film director.
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Weir studied art and law at the University of Sydney.
Weir achieved considerable success in Australia with Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), and Gallipoli (1981), both regarded as classic Australian cinema.
The Last Wave was a pensive, ambivalent film which explored the interaction between the native Aboriginal culture and the European.
His first two American films, Witness (1985) and The Mosquito Coast (1986) provided Harrison Ford with opportunities to play new kind of roles. Dead Poets Society (1989) brought him significant commercial success and Green Card (1990) will remain a favourite with many comedy lovers. In 2003 he made his first blockbuster movie, Master and Commander; it was successful with mainstream audiences despite its slow pace and focus on period detail and characterization, qualities that are characteristic of Weir's work.
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