Peter Whitehead (filmmaker), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Whitehead (filmmaker)

English filmmaker (*1937)

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1937

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Jun-2019

Profession: film director, film editor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Peter Lorrimer Whitehead (8 January 1937, in Liverpool – 10 June 2019, in London) was an English writer 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.
Paul Cronin’s two-part documentary In the Beginning Was the Image: Conversations With Peter Whitehead (2006) consists of new and archival interviews with Whitehead plus extracts from his work.