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- Birth namePeter Kenneth Collinson
- Peter Collinson was born on April 1, 1936 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for The Italian Job (1969), The Long Day's Dying (1968) and Up the Junction (1968). He was married to Lisa Shane and Ann Collinson. He died on December 16, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesAnn Collinson
- After national service in Malaya, he briefly had a one-man variety act before going into commercial television as a trainee director with ATV. He was subsequently with Ulster Television in Northern Ireland as senior drama director. After that, he had mixed success with several low-budget feature films. His one major success was the popular action caper The Italian Job (1969). Thereafter, his career declined to poorly-scripted international co-productions and inferior re-makes of classics, such as Ten Little Indians (1974) and The Spiral Staircase (1975).
- Trained at RADA and was first engaged as a stage hand at the New Cross Empire.
- Son of Lola Willard.
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