Peter Weir

Bio: Peter Lindsay Weir AM 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 filmsmany of them major box office hitsincluding the Academy Award nominees Witness Dead Poets Society Green Card The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

Born: August 21, 1944 in Sydney, Australia