Personal Info
Birth date
1943-10-31 (81 Years)
Day of death
2024-09-23
Gender
Male
Known for
Camera
Place of birth
Paris, France
Also known as
P.W. Glenn
Pierre William Glenn
William Glenn
Pierre-William Glenn
Biography
Pierre-William Glenn (31 October 1943 – 24 September 2024) was a French cinematographer and film director. He contributed to more than seventy films from 1968 to 2024, including Day for Night and Street of No Return. Glenn died on 24 September 2024, at the age of 80. At age 21, he enrolled at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Source: Article "Pierre-William Glenn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
Out 1
10
Overview:
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.Mr. Klein
7.241
Overview:
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.Day for Night
7.8
Overview:
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.11’09”01—September 11
6.4
Overview:
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.A Little Romance
6.8
Overview:
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebirds team up with eccentric pickpocket Julius to run away to Venice, where, according to legend, a couple who kiss under the Bridge of Sighs will stay together forever.A Dry White Season
6.7
Overview:
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.Coup de Torchon
7.062
Overview:
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.Terminus
3.8
Overview:
An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a terminus. The lead truck, created by a boy genius, is driven by a woman. When the computer guidance system fails, she ends up in uncharted territories and encounters leather-clad hoods who torture her. Meanwhile, a mysterious doctor seems to have another plan in mind.Let Joy Reign Supreme
6.409
Overview:
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.The Judge and the Assassin
6.9
Overview:
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
7.3
Overview:
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.Death Watch
6.3
Overview:
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.Avalanche
3.552
Overview:
After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.Cover Up
5.65
Overview:
A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.Choice of Arms
6.519
Overview:
A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.The North Star
6.333
Overview:
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.La Menace
5.884
Overview:
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.State of Siege
7.3
Overview:
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.The Watchmaker of St. Paul
6.9
Overview:
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.Out 1
7.4
Overview:
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
6.235
Overview:
A young sociologist researching criminal women selects a captivating inmate as his subject. As he conducts interviews in prison, her troubled past and justifications for her actions intrigue him. His growing interest soon blurs professional boundaries, testing his ability to resist her charm.Rape of Love
5.553
Overview:
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she decides to file a lawsuit.Serie Noire
7.462
Overview:
In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obsession deepens, his grip on reality begins to slip—and the line between escape and destruction starts to blur.Small Change
7.1
Overview:
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a haircut, a boy dealing with an abusive home life, a baby and a cat sitting by an open window, a child telling a dirty joke, and a boy who develops a crush on his friend's mother.Le Choc
5.2
Overview:
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...The Prize of Peril
6.395
Overview:
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.Acting
2018Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self
2016The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited as Self
2016Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond as Self
2008Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes as Self
1982Champs-Elysées (1 Episode) as Self
1974The Watchmaker of St. Paul as Cyclist (uncredited)
1967Trotsky as Self
Directing
2019Les Silences de Johnny ... Director
2010The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe ... Director
2009Portrait de groupe avec enfants et motocyclettes ... Director
2005Cleo's Real Itinerary Through Paris ... Director
199323h58 ... Director
1987Terminus ... Director
1985Les enragés ... Director
1975Le Cheval de fer ... Director
Writing
2010The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe ... Writer
199323h58 ... Writer
1987Terminus ... Story
Editing
2010The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe ... Editor
Camera
2010The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe ... Director of Photography
2005The Art of Breaking Up ... Director of Photography
2005Cleo's Real Itinerary Through Paris ... Director of Photography
2003Hanging Offense ... Director of Photography
200211’09”01—September 11 ... Director of Photography
2002And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... ... Director of Photography
2001A Woman's Love ... Director of Photography
1999Fait d'hiver ... Director of Photography
1998Chance or Coincidence ... Director of Photography
1996Mon père avait raison ... Director of Photography
1990Out 1 ... Director of Photography
1989Children of Chaos ... Director of Photography
1989A Dry White Season ... Director of Photography
1989Street of No Return ... Director of Photography
1983Cover Up ... Director of Photography
1983The Prize of Peril ... Director of Photography
1982Shot Pattern ... Director of Photography
1982Le Choc ... Director of Photography
1982The North Star ... Director of Photography
1981Coup de Torchon ... Director of Photography
1981Choice of Arms ... Director of Photography
1981The Boy Soldier ... Director of Photography
1980Exterior Night ... Director of Photography
1980Loulou ... Director of Photography
1980A Week's Vacation ... Director of Photography
1980L'entourloupe ... Director of Photography
1980Death Watch ... Director of Photography
1979A Little Romance ... Director of Photography
1979Serie Noire ... Director of Photography
1978Avalanche ... Director of Photography
1978Graduate First ... Director of Photography
1978Rape of Love ... Director of Photography
1977A Grin Without a Cat ... Director of Photography
1977La Menace ... Director of Photography
1977Group Portrait with a Lady ... Director of Photography
1976Mr. Klein ... Camera Operator
1976Boomerang ... Director of Photography
1976The Honeymoon Trip ... Director of Photography
1976Small Change ... Director of Photography
1976The Judge and the Assassin ... Director of Photography
1975Let Joy Reign Supreme ... Director of Photography
1974Charlotte ... Director of Photography
1974France, Incorporated ... Director of Photography
1974The Eyes Closed ... Director of Photography
1974The Watchmaker of St. Paul ... Director of Photography
1973Out 1: Spectre ... Director of Photography
1973Day for Night ... Director of Photography
1972State of Siege ... Director of Photography
1972A Gorgeous Girl Like Me ... Director of Photography
1972On n'arrête pas le printemps ... Director of Photography
1972Cousin Jules ... Director of Photography
1971Where Did Tom Go? ... Director of Photography
1971Out 1 (8 Episodes) ... Director of Photography
1971One Way Ticket ... Director of Photography
1971Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy ... Director of Photography
1970Comrades ... Director of Photography
1969Paulina Is Leaving ... Director of Photography
1969La Question ordinaire ... Director of Photography
1968Wheel of Ashes ... Camera Operator
1967Juliet in Paris ... Director of Photography
Production
199323h58 ... Producer