Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Chelsom (born April 20, 1956) is a British actor and film director. He has directed among others such films as Shall We Dance? and Hannah Montana: The Movie Chelsom was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, the son of antiques shop owners Kay and Reginald Chelsom. He studied at the Central School of Drama in London. He worked as an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as taking part in numerous film and television productions including A Woma...
Known For
Complete Filmography
A Sudden Case of Christmas
2024
Director, Screenplay
An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christ...
Security
2021
Story, Screenplay, Director
After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.
Berlin, I Love You
2019
Director
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.
The Space Between Us
2017
as Centaur (voice)
A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.
The Space Between Us
2017
Director
A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.
Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
Director, Screenplay
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he ha...
Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009
Director
When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change...
Shall We Dance?
2004
Director
A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and ...
Serendipity
2001
Director
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part c...
Town & Country
2001
Director
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wif...
The Mighty
1998
Director
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not autho...
Funny Bones
1995
Director, Writer, Producer
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—start...
Hear My Song
1991
Director, Story, Screenplay
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the lo...
Treacle
1987
Director, Writer
Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, ha...
Christmas Present
1985
as Nigel Playfayre
A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor fami...
Star Quality
1985
as Bryan Snow
Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match whe...
An Englishman Abroad
1983
as Giles
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with ...
Intensive Care
1982
as Very Young Doctor
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sur...
Cream in My Coffee
1980
as Young Bernard
Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit r...
The American Success Company
1980
as Mitchell
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and frie...
School Play
1979
as Grunt
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
The Beauty of Sharks
N/A
Director
Written by Rob Green with rewrites by Chelsom and Tinker Linsday, the pic, set in 1958, follows Mrs. Joy Hamilton, a recently widowed American sociali...
The Boy Who Knew Too Much
N/A
Director
From about the age of 2, Christian Haupt began an obsession with baseball, insisting on wearing a baseball uniform and talking about his experiences o...