Peter Glenville
Peter Glenville ( born October 28, 1913 in Hampstead, London, England; † June 3, 1996 in New York, NY; actually Peter Patrick Brabason Browne ) was a British film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
Peter Glenville, son of Irish actor Shaun Glenville (1884-1968) at Oxford University, began after the school education at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and a Study of Law a career as a theater actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the most renowned theater directors on Broadway and in London's West End. Already 1940-1948 he participated in several movies before 1955 The Prisoner starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins first came into existence as a film director. After that Glenville still worked well together in his last two directorial work Hotel Paradiso and The Comedians with Guinness.
Overall, between Glenville only seven films directed, can almost all be considered as moments of challenging cinema, however. Particularly outstanding is considered the historical drama Becket in 1964 with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, the twelve Oscar nominations ( including Best Director ), but only in the category Best Screenplay won the award. The screenplay by Edward Anhalt based on Anouilh's play Becket Jean or the glory of God through St. Thomas Becket.
Glenvilles last cinematic directorial effort was 1967 occupied with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Ustinov Graham Greene adaptation The Comedians. In 1972 he had been provided as a director for the film adaptation Man of La Mancha by Cervantes ' Don Quixote. Glenville was replaced by United Artists by Arthur Hiller, after he had intended to waive any musical background of the film.