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Alan J. Pakula
Pakula in Sweden, 1990.
Born	(1928-04-07)April 7, 1928 The Bronx, New York, USA
Died	November 19, 1998(1998-11-19) (aged 70) Melville, New York, USA
Spouse	Hope Lange (1963–1971) Hannah Cohn Boorstin (1973–1998)

Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.

Career[link]

Pakula started his Hollywood career as an assistant in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers. In 1957, he undertook his first production role for Paramount Pictures. In 1962, he produced To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. In 1969, he directed his first feature, The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli.

In 1971, Pakula released the first installment of what would informally come to be known as his "paranoia trilogy". Klute, the story of a relationship between a private eye (played by Donald Sutherland) and a call girl (played by Jane Fonda, who won an Oscar for her performance), was a commercial and critical success. This was followed in 1974 by The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty, a labyrinthine post-Watergate thriller involving political assassinations. The film has been noted for its experimental use of hypnotic imagery in a celebrated film-within-a-film sequence in which the protagonist is inducted into the Parallax Corporation, whose main, albeit non-ostensible, enterprise is domestic terrorism.

Finally, in 1976, Pakula rounded out the "trilogy" with All the President's Men, based on the bestselling account of the Watergate scandal written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who were played in the movie by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. It was another commercial hit, considered by many critics and fans to be one of the best thrillers of the 1970s.^[1]

Pakula scored another hit in 1982 with Sophie's Choice, starring Meryl Streep. His screenplay, based on the novel by William Styron, was nominated for an Academy Award. Later commercial successes included Presumed Innocent, based on the bestselling novel by Scott Turow, and another political thriller, The Pelican Brief, an adaptation of John Grisham's bestseller.

Personal life[link]

Pakula was born in The Bronx, New York to parents of Polish Jewish descent, Jeanette (née Goldstein) and Paul Pakula.^[2] He was educated at The Hill School, Pottstown, PA and Yale University, where he majored in drama. From October 19, 1963 until 1971, Pakula was married to actress Hope Lange. He was married to his second wife, Hannah Cohn Boorstin, from 1973 until his death in 1998.

Death[link]

Pakula died on November 19, 1998 in a freak car accident on the Long Island Expressway in Melville, New York. He was 70 years old. A driver in front of him struck a metal pipe, which went through Pakula's windshield, struck him in the head, and caused him to swerve off the road and into a fence. He was killed instantly.^[3]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alan J. Pakula

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Alan J. Pakula at the Internet Movie Database
• Alan J Pakula - Daily Telegraph obituary
• American Film Institute interview
• "The Pakula Parallax" essay
• "Alan J. Pakula". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4058. Retrieved September 3, 2010. 

Kevin Kline
Kline at the premiere of No Strings Attached, January 11, 2011
Born	Kevin Delaney Kline (1947-10-24) October 24, 1947 (age 64) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1972–present
Spouse	Phoebe Cates (m. 1989) «start: (1989)»"Marriage: Phoebe Cates to Kevin Kline" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Kevin_Kline)

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American stage and film actor. An Academy Award winner for his supporting role in the comedy hit Fish Called Wanda, AA Fish Called Wanda, he also won two Tony Awards and was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy Award.

Early life[link]

Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Peggy (née Kirk) and Robert Joseph Kline.^[1][2] His father was a classical music lover and an amateur opera singer who owned and operated The Record Bar, a record store in St. Louis that opened in the early '40s, and sold toys during the '60s and '70s;^[1][3] his father's family also owned Kline's Inc., a department store chain. Kline has described his mother as the "dramatic theatrical character in our family."^[4][5] Kline's father was Jewish, from a family that had emigrated from Germany; Kline's mother was of Irish descent, the daughter of an emigrant from County Louth.^[4] Kline was raised in his mother's Catholic religion (his father had become an agnostic).^[6] He has three siblings, Alex, Christopher, and Kate.^[2]

Kline graduated from the Catholic Saint Louis Priory School in 1965; in 1997, the school named its new auditorium the Kevin Kline Theater, and Kline did a benefit performance of selections from Shakespeare at the dedication. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he began as an aspiring classical pianist. After joining the on-campus theater group "Vest Pocket Players" as an undergraduate, he fell in love with the theater and switched to acting, graduating from IU in 1970.^[4]

Career[link]

Kline and wife Phoebe Cates at the Academy Awards Governor's Ball party, 1989

In 1970, Kline was awarded a scholarship to the newly formed Drama Division at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1972, he joined with fellow Juilliard graduates, including Patti LuPone and David Ogden Stiers, and formed the City Center Acting Company (now The Acting Company), under the aegis of John Houseman. The Company traveled across the U.S. performing Shakespeare's plays, other classical works, and the musical The Robber Bridegroom, founding one of the most widely praised groups in American repertory theatre.^[4]

In 1976, Kline left The Acting Company and settled in New York City, doing a brief stint as the character "Woody Reed" in the now-defunct soap opera Search for Tomorrow. He followed this with a return to the stage in 1977 to play Clym Yeobright opposite Donna Theodore as Eustacia Vye in The Hudson Guild Theater production of Dance on a Country Grave, Kelly Hamilton's musical version of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native. In 1978 he played the small role of "Bruce Granit", a matinée idol caricature, in Harold Prince's On the Twentieth Century, for which he won his first Tony Award.^[4] In 1981, Kline appeared with rock diva Linda Ronstadt and singer Rex Smith in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Central Park production of The Pirates of Penzance, winning another Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, for his comically dashing portrayal of the Pirate King. In 1983, he played the role in a film version of the musical, also with Ronstadt, Smith and Angela Lansbury, which had a limited theatrical release.^[4]

In the ensuing years, Kline appeared many times in New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Shakespeare, including starring roles in Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, two productions of Hamlet (one of which he also directed) and a Tony-nominated Falstaff in a production that combined the two parts of Henry IV.

Dubbed "the American Olivier" by New York Times theater critic Frank Rich for his stage acting, Kline finally ventured into film in 1982 in Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice. He won the coveted role of the tormented and mercurial Nathan opposite Meryl Streep. Streep won an Academy Award for her performance in the film. Kline was nominated for a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for best debut performance.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Kline made several films with director Lawrence Kasdan, including The Big Chill, Silverado, Wyatt Earp, Grand Canyon, I Love You to Death, and French Kiss. In 1989, Kline won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the British comedy A Fish Called Wanda, in which he played a painfully inept American ex-CIA thug opposite John Cleese's genteel British barrister and Jamie Lee Curtis' femme fatale/con woman.^[4] In 2000, the American Film Institute ranked the film twenty-first on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.^[7]

Though he has been offered many roles that could have boosted him to box-office stardom, Kline has kept a wary distance from the Hollywood star-making machine. He developed a reputation for picking parts with discrimination (such as strong roles in Grand Canyon and Life as a House), leading to the industry nickname "Kevin Decline".^[8] Other awards have included Drama Desk Awards, Golden Globe awards, a Gotham Award, a Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year Award, and a St. Louis International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. He also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

Film reviewers have widely praised his talent. Newsday said Kline "has proved himself to be one of the most talented and versatile American actors of his generation."^[9]

He played the title role in King Lear at the Public Theatre, and took the lead role in a Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jennifer Garner. That production was forced to close temporarily after only eleven performances as a result of the Broadway stagehands' strike,^[10] but subsequently reopened. Cyrano was filmed in 2008 and aired as part of PBS's Great Performances series in January 2009.^[11] In January 2008, Kline won a Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of Jaques in Kenneth Branagh's film As You Like It, adapted from Shakespeare's play. The film premiered theatrically in 2006 in Europe. It bypassed theatres and was sent straight to HBO in the U.S. Kline's film The Conspirator premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010 and was described as an "old fashioned historical thriller". It was well received by most critics. Kline will also star in the 2012 comedy Darling Companion alongside Diane Keaton.

In December 2004 Kline became the 2,272nd recipient of a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame,^[12] located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.

Personal life[link]

Throughout the 1970s, Kline was involved in a long-term relationship with his Juilliard classmate Patti LuPone. They separated and reconnected many times before finally ending their relationship in 1978. Their relationship is precisely detailed in LuPone's memoir, Patti LuPone: A Memoir.

Kline married actress Phoebe Cates in 1989. The couple live in New York City and they have two children: Owen Joseph Kline^[13] (born October 14, 1991), who had a featured role in The Squid and the Whale, and Greta Simone Kline^[13] (born March 21, 1994). After his son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, Kline became active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In November 2004, he was presented with the JDRF's Humanitarian of the Year award by Meryl Streep for his volunteer efforts on behalf of the organization.

The Kevin Kline Awards honor theatre professionals in St. Louis in a wide array of categories, which include best actor and actress, set design, choreography, and original play. The first awards ceremony took place on March 20, 2006.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Kevin Kline

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kevin Kline

• Kevin Kline at the Internet Broadway Database
• Kevin Kline at the Internet Movie Database
• Kevin Kline at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• St. Louis Walk of Fame
• The Kevin Kline Awards
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Kevin Kline on Charlie Rose
• Works by or about Kevin Kline in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Kevin Kline collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• 2011 Indiana University Magazine profile "The American Olivier"

Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957)^[1] is the director of such films as Scandal, Rob Roy, Memphis Belle and The Jackal. Caton-Jones was born in Broxburn, Lothian, Scotland.

Education[link]

He attended to St Marys Academy in Bathgate, and trained at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UK.

Family life[link]

A lifelong Celtic FC supporter, Caton-Jones is married to film producer Laura Viederman, with whom he has 2 children (Romy b. 2001 and Charlie b. 2003). He also has two daughters from a previous relationship (Daisy b. 1983 and Molly b. 1990).

Awards[link]

His film Basic Instinct 2 won several Razzies at the 2007 ceremony.

Filmography (director)[link]

• Scandal (1989)
• Memphis Belle (1990)
• Doc Hollywood (1991)
• This Boy's Life (1993)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• The Jackal (1997)
• City by the Sea (2002)
• Shooting Dogs (2005)
• Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Michael Caton-Jones at the Internet Movie Database

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Michael Caton
Born	1943 (age 68–69) Monto, Queensland, Australia
Spouse	Helen Esakoff

Michael Caton (born in Monto, Queensland,^[1] 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor, and television host, best known for playing Uncle Harry in the Australian television series, The Sullivans, playing Darryl Kerrigan from 1997's low budget hit film The Castle and playing in the popular Packed to the Rafters. He is married to Helen Esakoff. Caton has been inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame in honour of his work in Australia's cinema and television industries.^[2] His son Septimus narrates My Kitchen Rules.

Media career[link]

Television[link]

Caton starred in the Australian drama series - Five Mile Creek - from 1983 until 1985. Caton then appeared in the risqué 1990s soap opera Chances (in 1991 and 1992).

In 1976 Michael Caton starred in the War Family Drama as Uncle Harry Sullivan in the long running Channel 9 series of The Sullivans.

Since 1999, Caton has hosted two lifestyle programs - Hot Property and Hot Auctions - on the Seven Network until 2009, and Channel Nine since 2010.

In 2005, he was a contestant on the third series of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.

He is in the Channel 7 dramedy Packed to the Rafters, playing Ted Taylor, father of Julie Rafter, and grandfather to all the grandchildren and their partners.

Caton works with the Queensland rugby league team as 'cultural ambassador', a role which he inherited from deceased long-time team manager Dick Turner.^[3]

Filmography[link]

Stage[link]

Caton appeared in the 1971 Melbourne production of the rock musical Hair. He has also appeared on stage at the Twelfth Night Theatre. In 2007–08, Caton appeared in Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical as Bob.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Michael Caton at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.centraltelegraph.com.au/story/2010/03/05/day-changed-catons-lives/

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Peter Weir
Weir in April 2011
Born	Peter Lindsay Weir (1944-08-21) 21 August 1944 (age 67) Sydney, Australia
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	1964–present
Spouse	Wendy Stites (1966–present)

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films—many of them major box office hits—including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

Early life and career[link]

Weir was born in Sydney, the son of Peggy (née Barnsley) and Lindsay Weir, a real estate agent.^[1] Weir attended The Scots College and Vaucluse Boys' High School before studying art and law at the University of Sydney. His interest in film was sparked by his meeting with fellow students, including Phillip Noyce and the future members of the Sydney filmmaking collective Ubu Films.

After leaving university in the mid-1960s he joined Sydney television station ATN-7, where he worked as a production assistant on the groundbreaking satirical comedy program The Mavis Bramston Show. During this period, using station facilities, he made his first two experimental short films, Count Vim's Last Exercise and The Life and Flight of Reverend Buckshotte.

Weir then took up a position with the Commonwealth Film Unit (later renamed Film Australia), for which he made several documentaries, including a short documentary about an underprivileged outer Sydney suburb, Whatever Happened to Green Valley, in which residents were invited to make their own film segments. Another notable film in this period was the short rock music performance film Three Directions In Australian Pop Music (1972), which featured in-concert colour footage of three of the most significant Melbourne rock acts of the period, Spectrum, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and Wendy Saddington. He also directed one section of the three-part, three-director feature film Three To Go (1970), which won an AFI award.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale (1971), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance. Homesdale and Weir's two aforementioned CFU shorts have been released on DVD.

Weir's first full-length feature film was the underground cult classic, The Cars That Ate Paris (1975), a low-budget black comedy about the inhabitants of a small country town who deliberately cause fatal car crashes and live off the proceeds. It was a minor success in cinemas but proved very popular on the then-thriving drive-in circuit.

Weir's major breakthrough in Australia and internationally was the lush, atmospheric period mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), made with substantial backing from the state-funded South Australian Film Corporation and filmed on location in South Australia and rural Victoria. Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, the film relates the purportedly "true" story of a group of students from an exclusive girls' school who mysteriously vanish from a school picnic on Valentine's Day 1900. Widely credited as a key work in the "Australian film renaissance" of the mid-1970s, Picnic was the first Australian film of its era to gain both critical praise and be given substantial international theatrical releases. It also helped launch the career of internationally renowned Australian cinematographer Russell Boyd. It was widely acclaimed by critics, many of whom praised it as a welcome antidote to the so-called "ocker film" genre, typified by The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Alvin Purple.

Weir's next film, The Last Wave (1977) was a supernatural thriller about a man who begins to experience terrifying visions of an impending natural disaster. It starred the American actor Richard Chamberlain, who was well-known to Australian and world audiences as the eponymous physician in the popular Doctor Kildare TV series, and would later star in the Australian-set major series "The Thorn Birds". The Last Wave was a pensive, ambivalent work that expanded on themes from Picnic, exploring the interactions between the native Aboriginal and European cultures. It co-starred the aboriginal actor David Gulpilil, whose performance won the Golden Ibex (Oscar equivalent) at the Tehran International Festival in 1977 but was only a moderate commercial success at the time.

Between The Last Wave and his next feature, Weir wrote and directed the offbeat low-budget telemovie The Plumber (1979). It starred Australian actors Judy Morris and Ivar Kants and was filmed in just three weeks.^[2] Inspired by a real-life experience told to him by friends, it is a black comedy about a woman whose life is disrupted by a subtly menacing plumber.

Weir scored a major Australian hit and further international praise with his next film Gallipoli (1981). Scripted by the Australian playwright David Williamson, it is regarded as classic Australian cinema. Gallipoli was instrumental in making Mel Gibson (Mad Max) into a major star, although his co-star Mark Lee, who also received high praise for his role, has made relatively few screen appearances since.

The climax of Weir's early career was the $6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), again starring Mel Gibson, playing opposite top Hollywood female lead Sigourney Weaver in a story about journalistic loyalty, idealism, love and ambition in the turmoil of Sukarno's Indonesia of 1965. It was an adaptation of the novel by Christopher Koch, which was based in part on the experiences of Koch's journalist brother Philip, the ABC's Jakarta correspondent and one of the few western journalists in the city during the 1965 attempted coup. The film also won Linda Hunt (who played a man in the film) an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

On 14 June 1982, Weir was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to the film industry.^[3]

Filmmaking in the United States[link]

Weir's first American film was the successful thriller Witness (1985), the first of two films he made with Harrison Ford, a thriller about an Amish boy who sees the murder of an undercover police officer and has to be hidden away in his Amish community to protect him. Child star Lukas Haas received wide praise for his debut film performance; Witness also earned Weir his first Oscar nomination as Best Director, and was his first of several films to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

It was followed by the darker, less commercial The Mosquito Coast (1986), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family. These dramatic parts provided Harrison Ford with important opportunities to break the typecasting of his career-making roles in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. Both films showed off his ability to play more subtle and substantial characters and he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his work in Witness, the only Academy Awards recognition in his career. The Mosquito Coast is also notable for an impressive performance by the young River Phoenix.

Weir's next film, Dead Poets Society (1989) was a major international success, with Weir again receiving credit for expanding the acting range of its Hollywood star. Robin Williams was mainly known for his anarchic standup comedy and his popular TV role as the wisecracking alien in Mork & Mindy; in this film he played an inspirational teacher in a dramatic story about conformity and rebellion at an exclusive New England prep school in the 1950s. The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Weir, and launched the acting careers of young actors Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard. It became a major box-office hit and is without doubt one of Weir's best-known films for mainstream audiences.

Weir's first romantic comedy Green Card (1990) was another casting risk. Weir chose French screen icon Gérard Depardieu in the lead—Depardieu's first English-language role—and paired him with American actress Andie MacDowell. Green Card was a box-office hit but was regarded as less of a critical success, although it helped Depardieu's path to international fame, and Weir received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay.

Fearless (1993) returned to darker themes and starred Jeff Bridges as a man who believes he has become invincible after surviving a catastrophic air crash. Though well reviewed, particularly the performances of Bridges and Rosie Perez — who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress — the film was less commercially successful than Weir's two preceding films. It was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.^[4]

After five years, Weir returned to direct his biggest success to date, The Truman Show (1998), a fantasy-satire of the media's control of life. The Truman Show was both a box office and a critical success, receiving positive reviews and numerous awards, including three Academy Award nominations: Andrew Niccol for Best Original Screenplay, Ed Harris for Best Supporting Actor, and Weir himself for Best Director.

In 2003 Weir returned to period drama with Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, starring Russell Crowe. A screen adaptation from various episodes in Patrick O'Brian's blockbuster adventure series set during the Napoleonic Wars, it was well received by critics, but only mildly successful with mainstream audiences. Despite another nomination for Best Picture and winning two Oscars for frequent collaborator Russell Boyd's cinematography, and for sound effects editing, the film's box office success was moderate ($93 million at the North American Box Office). The film grossed slightly better overseas, gleaning an additional $114 million.

Unfinished projects and current work[link]

In 1993 Weir spoke about making an adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker, focusing on the theatre profession in Australia at the turn of the 20th century,^[5] but this did not see production. In the 1990s, Weir was considered as a director for the film adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, but he was ruled out in favor of Jonathan Demme at an early stage, allegedly due to conflicts over the casting of star/producer Oprah Winfrey.^[6]

In the mid-2000s, according to The Internet Movie Database, Weir was attached as director of several other projects. He was to direct a film adaptation of William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition. He was also attached to a film adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' book Shantaram, starring Johnny Depp; he left the project, which later folded in 2009. He was also planning to direct two other films: War Magician and Shadow Divers.

Weir wrote and directed The Way Back,^[7] which was released in late 2010.

Filmography[link]

Feature films[link]

• The Cars That Ate Paris (aka The Cars That Eat People) (1974)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• The Last Wave (1977)
• Gallipoli (1981)
• The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
• Witness (1985)
• The Mosquito Coast (1986)
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Green Card (1990)
• Fearless (1993)
• The Truman Show (1998)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
• The Way Back (2010)

Short films[link]

• Three to Go (1969) (segment "Michael")
• Homesdale (1971)
• Three Directions In Pop Music (1971)
• Incredible Floridas (1972)

TV work[link]

• Man on a Green Bike (1969)
• The Plumber (1978)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Peter Weir Pays Witness To The Amish – 27 January 1985
• Peter Weir: In a Class by Himself – 4 June 1989
• Poetry Man – Premiere magazine Interview – July 1989
• A Director Asks for Odd and Gets It – 13 October 1993
• Staring Death in the Face – 17 October 1993
• Weir'd Tales – An interview with Peter Weir – 1994
• A Weir'd Experience – 20 April 1998
• Director Tries a Fantasy As He Questions Reality – 21 May 1998
• Interview – Peter Weir – 3 June 1998
• More to Digest than Popcorn: An Interview with Peter Weir – 4 June 1998
• Peter Weir: The Hollywood Interview – 15 March 2008
• Uncommon Man – The DGA Quarterly Interview – Summer 2010

External links[link]

• Peter Weir at the Internet Movie Database
• Peter Weir's 2010 David Lean lecture at BAFTA
• Peter Weir Cave (unofficial Peter Weir site)
• Photo of Peter Weir at the 76th Annual Academy Awards
• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
• Peter Weir at the National Film and Sound Archive