Peter Greenaway

Director, known for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Pillow Book, The Draughtsman's Contract

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early period culminated in…