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Peter Biziou (born August 8, 1944) is a retired British cinematographer. He served as director of photography on many notable films including Bugsy Malone, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits, In the Name of the Father, The Truman Show, and Unfaithful. For his work on Mississippi Burning, he received both an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography.
Born
August 8, 1944 (age 82)
Birthplace
Bangor, Wales, UK
Filmography
20 films


Derailed
2005 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.


Ladies in Lavender
2004 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.


Unfaithful
2002 · 2h 4m
country: United States
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.


The Truman Show
1998 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.


Richard III
1995 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.


The Road to Wellville
1994 · 1h 58m
country: United States
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.


In the Name of the Father
1993 · 2h 13m
country: Ireland
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.


Damage
1992 · 1h 51m
country: France
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.


City of Joy
1992 · 2h 12m
country: France
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.


Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.


Mississippi Burning
1988 · 2h 8m
country: United States
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.


A World Apart
1988 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?


Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986 · 1h 57m
country: United States
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.


Another Country
1984 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to his becoming a spy.


Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.


Time Bandits
1981 · 1h 56m
country: United Kingdom
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Stretch Hunter
Stretch Hunter
1980 · 25m
country: United Kingdom
A crucial few hours in the life of a would-be London gangster


Life of Brian
1979 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.


Bugsy Malone
1976 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.