Peter Whitehead
Peter Lorrimer Whitehead (8 January 1937 - 10 June 2019) was an English writer, photographer and filmmaker who documented the counterculture in London and New York in the late 1960s. He is also known for his work as a director of promotional film clips (precursors to the modern music video) including a version of "Interstellar Overdrive" for Pink Floyd and several clips for The Rolling Stones.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1937-01-08 · Liverpool, England, UK
- Died
- 2019-06-10
Known for
- Pink Floyd London '66-'67 (2005) — Director
- Wholly Communion (1965) — Director
- Daddy (1973) — Director
- The Fall (1969) — Narrator (voice)
- The Benefit of the Doubt (1967) — Director
- A Dream Longer Than the Night (1976) — Original Music Composer
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967) — Director
- Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009) — Director
- Jeanetta Cochrane (1967) — Director
- Fire in the Water (1977) — Writer
- Charlie Is My Darling (1966) — Director
- Led Zeppelin: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1970 (2003) — Director
- The Falconer (1998)
- Nothing to Do with Me (1968) — Self
- In the Beginning Was the Image (2006) — Self
- Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows (2017) — Self