Peter Medak

Peter Medak

Directing
1937-12-23
Budapest, Hungary

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Medak (born 23 December 1937) is a Hungarian-born film director of British and American films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Medak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles

#1Beverly Hills Cop III

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Man at Corner

5.9 / 10
ActionComedyCrime

When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.

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#2Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m as Self

7.3 / 10
Documentary

Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.

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#3The Ghost of Peter Sellers

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m as Self

5.8 / 10
Documentary

A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.

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#4Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m as Self

10.0 / 10
Documentary

Peter Medak's films toy with notions of cosplay, masquerade, gamesmanship, and how power and permission structures figure into these human diversions. His filmography includes The Ruling Class (1972), The Changeling (1980), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1971), The Krays (1990), and others, all which capitalize on these ideas. Sanity is fragile, ephemeral, and suspended from a very thin tether in all his films. This piece gets to the bottom of why Medak centers his work on such themes, and why they carry biographical weight for him personally.

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#5The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Father

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryDrama

An award winning documentary drama of the life of Amanda Eliasch showing the true feelings of a woman.

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