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David Peat (22 March 1947 – 16 April 2012) was an award-winning Scottish documentary-maker,
cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
and photographer.
Early life and education
Peat was born in
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
, Scotland. As a young man he worked in his family's shipping company.
["Obituary: David Peat; Scottish documentary film-maker who loved to reflect the lives of ordinary people"]
''The Scotsman''.
Career
In the 1970s Peat worked as a film cameraman, shooting documentaries for well-known producers, including the
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Roger Graef
Roger Arthur Graef OBE (18 April 1936 – 2 March 2022) was an American-born British documentary filmmaker and theatre director. Born in New York City, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he began a career producing documentary films investiga ...
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Peat produced a number of action and physical shoots, including The Legend of Los Tayos in the
Amazonian jungle, with
Bill Forsyth
William David Forsyth (born 29 July 1946). known as Bill Forsyth, is a Scottish film director and writer known for his films '' Gregory's Girl'' (1981), '' Local Hero'' (1983) and '' Comfort and Joy'' (1984) as well as his adaptation of the Ma ...
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Peat worked on arts films for cinema and television with Scottish film-maker,
Murray Grigor
William Alexander Murray Grigor (born 1939) is a Scottish film-maker, writer, artist, exhibition curator and amateur architect who has served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He has made over 50 films with a focus on a ...
, (''The Hand of Adam'', ''Frank Lloyd Wright'', ''Blast!''). Two of these featured Billy Connolly (''Clydescope'', ''
Big Banana Feet
''Big Banana Feet'' is a 1976 comedy documentary film following Billy Connolly on his 1975 tour of Ireland. The film was directed by Murray Grigor and David Peat
David Peat (22 March 1947 – 16 April 2012) was an award-winning Scottish document ...
'').
Peat began directing and film-making with the encouragement of producer Steve Clark-Hall, delivering a weekly programme ''Years Ahead'' on
Channel Four
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service i ...
in 1983.
From then until his death he worked in television, making many individual films, directing and a number of series. One of his more comprehensive series was ''Scotland on Film'', which was create for BBC Scotland.
Peat became best known as a film-maker for his observational documentaries, (''Gutted'', ''This Mine is Ours'', ''Me and My Face'', ''Life's Too Short'', ''Please Leave The Light On'', and others, often acting as a director-cameraman.
In later years he taught both College courses and training classes at the
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Peat died of cancer in Glasgow, Scotland, 16 April 2012.