Peter Blake
Know for: Acting
Born: 1932-06-25
Place of birth: Dartford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Also know as:
aka Mr. Chow (2023)
With his signature circular glasses and mustache, Michael Chow is an exuberant force at the crossroads between eccentricity and sophistication. The...
Pop Goes the Easel (1962)
Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists...
Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel (1962)
Peter Blake explores his passion for pop icons, Peter Phillips is featured with his cool companions, Derek Boshier voices his concerns with the...
When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies (2012)
Timeshift turns back the clock to a time when villains wore silver capes, grannies swooned at the sight of bulky men in latex and the most masculine...
Masters of the Canvas (1992)
When pop artist Peter Blake confessed that his fantasy was to be the mysterious masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, who never speaks and never removes...
Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World (2015)
Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal...
Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis (2011)
This documentary chronicles the long and storied career of Storm Thorgerson, the most famous artist you've never heard of -- the brilliant...
Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996)
As an architect, educator, and philosopher, Louis Kahn played a prominent role in the history of 20th century architecture. An examination of six of...
The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas? (2024)
Forty years on from the release of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid, this documentary unearths 75 minutes of rare and previously unseen...