Peter Whitehead

Biography

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 version of "Interstellar Overdrive" for Pink Floyd and several clips for The Rolling Stones.

Directed

1. Pink Floyd London '66-'67 (2005) — Director
2. Wholly Communion (1965) — Director
3. Daddy (1973) — Director
4. The Fall (1969) — Director
5. The Benefit of the Doubt (1967) — Director
6. Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967) — Director
7. Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009) — Director
8. Jeanetta Cochrane (1967) — Director
9. Fire in the Water (1977) — Director
10. Charlie Is My Darling (1966) — Director
11. Led Zeppelin - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1970 (2003) — Director
12. When I Was Young (1965) — Director
13. The Perception Of Life (1964) — Director
14. Lilford Hall (1969) — Director
15. The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965 (2012) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Fall (1969) — Narrator (voice)
2. The Falconer (1998)
3. Nothing to Do with Me (1968) — Self
4. In the Beginning Was the Image (2006) — Self