Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir is an Australian retired film director. He is known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and The Way Back (2010). He has received six Academy Award nominations, ultimately being awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 2022 for his lifetime achievement career.
21 August 1944
Born on the same birth date (21 August 1944): Perry Christie
Born on the same birth day (21 August): Albert Irvin • Bernadette Porter • Charles Frédéric Gerhardt • Jackie DeShannon • Kenny Rogers • Laura Trevelyan • Nikolay Bogolyubov • Patty McCormack • Paul Panhuysen • Perry Christie • Philip II of France • Reuven Feuerstein • Stephen Hillenburg • Steve Smith (drummer) • Wilt Chamberlain
Born in the same month (August 1944): Charles Wang • Clive Lloyd • Dimitris Sioufas • Frederick W. Smith • George Armstrong (footballer) • Graig Nettles • Jacques Demers • Jim Capaldi • John Glover (actor) • Kevin Ayers • Michael Mingos • Molly Ivins • Nino Bravo • Rajiv Gandhi