Biography
Peter Joseph Cattaneo was born on 1 July 1964 in Twickenham, London. He is a two-time Academy Award-nominated English filmmaker most famous for directing the hit British film "The Full Monty" (1997). He has since directed several films, including "Lucky Break" (2001), "Opal Dream" (2006) and "The Rocker" (2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Cattaneo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Complete Filmography
The Penguin Lessons
2025
Director
In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his compassion for others thanks to an unlikely friendsh...
Military Wives
2020
Director
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected...
Diana and I
2017
Director
In the week that follows Princess Diana's tragic death on 31 August 1997, four separate stories unfold as four ordinary lives are all affected in diff...
The Rocker
2008
Director
In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at st...
Opal Dream
2006
Director, Screenplay
Pobby & Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the 9 year-old daughter of an opal miner. The fil...
Lucky Break
2001
Director, Producer
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which...
The Full Monty
1997
Director
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Loved Up
1995
Director
Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a "raver" who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs scen...
Concierto Evolución
1992
Co-Writer
An orchestra plays in harmony until things start going south - the three movements of Enjott Schneider's piano concert are an analogy to creation, des...
Dear Rosie
1990
Director
Dear Rosie is a 1990 British short film directed by Peter Cattaneo from a script by Peter Morgan and Mark Wadlow. The plot follows Rosie, an unsuccess...
The Players
N/A
Director
1847 New York, where Edwin Forrest holds the undisputed title as the country’s top Shakespearean actor. Playing magnificently to a sold out, raucous c...