Peter Whitehead

Peter WHITEHEAD (1937, Liverpool) studied at Cambridge (physics and crystallography) and went to the Slade School of Art to paint, but was so fascinated by the film department that he didn't touch a paintbrush. He was commissioned to make his first film, a documentary about the history of biology, The Perception of Life (1964). Whitehead has written and self-published various novels and published various screenplays through his publishing house Lorrimer Books, e.g. works by Godard, Bergman, Renoir and Eisenstein.