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Peter Glenville

Highest Rated: 75% Becket (1964)

Lowest Rated: 27% The Comedians (1967)

Birthday: Oct 28, 1913

Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England, UK

Peter Glenville was responsible for directing several feature films, starting with "The Prisoner" (1955) and concluding with "The Comedians in Africa" (1967), a sequel to his somewhat awkward adaptation of Graham Greene's "The Comedians" (1967). Perhaps it was during Glenville's theatrical tenure, as an actor in the 1930s and a director in the 40s and 50s, that he developed his taste in films. Over the course of twelve years, Glenville directed clubfooted costume dramas and stock boulevard farces, usually fronted by high-profile thespians. Onstage, he guided Maurice Evans and Edna Best in "The Browning Version," Beatrice Straight in "The Innocents," Olivia de Havilland in "Romeo and Juliet" and Bert Lahr and Angela Lansbury in "Hotel Paradiso." He also directed the original stage productions as well as the feature versions of "The Prisoner" (with Alec Guinness recreating his stage triumph) and "Becket" (onstage with Anthony Quinn and Laurence Olivier and on film with Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole). Other feature credits include "Summer and Smoke" (1961), which earned its star Geraldine Page an Oscar nomination, and the all-star "The Comedians," with Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Ustinov.

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Highest rated movies

75% 87% Becket
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63% 72% The Prisoner
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27% 47% The Comedians
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The Comedians In Africa
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62% Me and the Colonel
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85% Term of Trial
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55% Summer and Smoke
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58% Hotel Paradiso
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Good-Time Girl
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
27% 47% The Comedians Director,
Producer
- 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Comedians In Africa Self - 1967
No Score Yet 58% Hotel Paradiso Georges Feydeau (Character),
Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter
- 1966
75% 87% Becket Director - 1964
No Score Yet 85% Term of Trial Director - 1962
No Score Yet 55% Summer and Smoke Director - 1961
No Score Yet 62% Me and the Colonel Director - 1958
63% 72% The Prisoner Director - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Good-Time Girl Jimmy Rosso (Character) - 1948