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Peter Glenville
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: October 28, 1913 in London, England, UK Death: June 3, 1996 Biography: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),... Full Biography
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