London-born Peter Glenville was a law student in Oxford when he surrendered to the lure of greasepaint. Becoming an actor was hardly an arbitrary decision: Glenville was the son of theatrical performers Shaun Glenville and Dorothy Ward. Among his early roles was Puck in Max Reinhardt's fabled staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Though he turned director at the Old Vic in 1944, his entree into British films was as a romantic lead in such pictures as Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945). Glenville would not direct a film until the 1955 Alec Guinness vehicle The Prisoner. This and many of his subsequent films--Me and the Colonel (1958), Summer and Smoke (1961), Becket (1964, which earned him an Oscar nomination) Hotel Paradiso (1966) et. al.-- were faithful adaptations of plays that Glenville had previously directed for the stage. Peter Glenville's last film, The Comedians (1967), reunited him with several old co-workers, including The Prisoner's Alec Guinness and Becket's Richard Burton.
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The Comedians
Director, Producer |
1967 | |||
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Hotel Paradiso
Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1966 | |||
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Becket
Director |
1964 | |||
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Term of Trial
Director, Screenwriter |
1962 | |||
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Summer and Smoke
Director |
1961 | |||
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Me and the Colonel
Director |
1958 | |||
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The Prisoner
Director |
1955 | |||
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Good Time Girl
Actor |
1948 | |||
| 1945 | ||||
| 1944 | ||||
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Uncensored
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Return to Yesterday
Actor |
1940 | |||
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Two for Danger
Actor |
1940 | |||
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His Brother's Keeper
Actor |
1939 |