Peter Chelsom is a British

British people

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 actor

Actor

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 and film director

Film director

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. He has directed among others such films as Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance? (2004 film)

Shall We Dance? is a 2004 American film. It is a remake of the award-winning Masayuki Suo 1996 Japanese film, Shall We Dance?. The film made its US premier at the Hawaii International Film Festival.-Plot:...

and Hannah Montana: The Movie

Hannah Montana: The Movie

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Chelsom was born in Blackpool

Blackpool

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, Lancashire

Lancashire

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, 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

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

 as well as taking part in numerous film and television productions including A Woman of Substance

A Woman of Substance

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which also included Jenny Seagrove

Jenny Seagrove

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 and Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

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. While acting he developed a growing interest in writing and directing. From 1985-1998 he ran the television film course at Central School of Drama and later taught at both the Actor's Institute and Cornell University

Cornell University

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.

Director

• Treacle
  Treacle
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  (1987)
• Hear My Song
  Hear My Song
  Hear My Song is a 1991 film, written by the actors Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar , based on the story of Irish tenor Josef Locke...
  
  (1991)
• Funny Bones
  Funny Bones
  Funny Bones is a 1995 comedy-drama film from Disney's Hollywood Pictures. It was written, directed and produced by Peter Chelsom, co-produced by Simon Fields, and co-written by Peter Flannery. The music score was by John Altman and the cinematography by Eduardo Serra...
  
  (1995)
• The Mighty
  The Mighty
  The Mighty is a 1998 drama film based on the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick.-Plot:Kevin is a 12-year-old boy who suffers Mucopolysaccharidosis IV, or Morquio syndrome. He is extremely intelligent and prone to flights of fancy, but is physically crippled and is forced to walk with crutches...
  
  (1998)
• Town & Country
  Town & Country (film)
  Town & Country is a 2001 film starring Goldie Hawn, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton and Garry Shandling and directed by Peter Chelsom. It is a romantic comedy in which Beatty plays New York City architect Porter Stoddard, with Keaton as his wife and Hawn and Shandling as their best friends. It holds...
  
  (2001)
• Serendipity
  Serendipity (film)
  Serendipity is a 2001 romantic comedy, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. It was written by Marc Klein and directed by Peter Chelsom...
  
  (2001)
• Shall We Dance?
  Shall We Dance? (2004 film)
  Shall We Dance? is a 2004 American film. It is a remake of the award-winning Masayuki Suo 1996 Japanese film, Shall We Dance?. The film made its US premier at the Hawaii International Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (2004)
• Hannah Montana: The Movie
  Hannah Montana: The Movie
  Hannah Montana: The Movie is a 2009 Walt Disney Pictures musical comedy film based on the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana which was released on April 10, 2009, by Walt Disney Pictures, it was the second Disney Channel series to have a movie for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by...
  
  (2009)

Actor

• Indian Summer (1987) as Oliver Sutherland
• Christmas Present (1985) as Nigel Playfayre
• A Woman of Substance (1985)

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