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Peter Whitehead
Director 1937 - 2019

Peter Whitehead

Liverpool, England, UK

Peter Lorrimer Whitehead 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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

2 titles
Pink Floyd London '66-'67

Pink Floyd London '66-'67

Peter Whitehead 2005 30m

Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60's Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary '14 hour Technicolor Dream' extravaganza in April '67 at Alexandra Palace.

Wholly Communion

Wholly Communion

Peter Whitehead 1965 33m

A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry.

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