Peter Collinson can refer to the following people:
Peter Collinson FRS, scientist and friend of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin, an engraving from a painting by Duplessis Dr. Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was an American printer, journalist, publisher, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, public servant, scientist, librarian, diplomat, and inventor. ...
Peter Collinson, film director
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PeterCollinson (January 1694–August 11, 1768) was a Fellow of the Royal Society best known for his friendship with Benjamin Franklin and their correspondence about electricity.
In October 1728 Collinson wrote to Sir Hans Sloane, President of the Royal Society, about strange events in Kent and on 7 November 1728 he was proposed for Fellowship of the society.
Collinson sold his cloth to Americans and through his business contacts he obtained samples of seeds and plants to study.
The Italian Job (1969), an amusing caper comedy about a mastermind (Noel Coward) who organises a huge gold bullion robbery while still serving a prison sentence, was Collinson's most successful commercial film, although its popularity owed much to a spectacular car chase sequence actually staged by second-unit director Phillip Wrestler.
Collinson subsequently developed a frenetic, all-stops-out style of filmmaking as, without the benefits that studio control might have brought him, the dangers signalled in the earlier films were allowed to develop unchecked into full-scale deficiencies.
These were particularly apparent in the chillers he made, although at least Fright (1971) and Straight on Till Morning (1972), both greatly aided by the bravura performances of their female leads, Susan George and Rita Tushingham respectively, never let up.
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