Peter Sykes

Peter Sykes (June 17, 1939 – March 1, 2006) was an Australian television and film director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom. According to Filmink "auteurist critics always seem to pass him by." Biography He was born in Melbourne and worked as a dancer, then as an assistant director on documentaries and children's shows on Australian television. He moved to London in 1963. He wrote to a fellow Australian, Donald Levy, admiring a documentary Levy had made called Time In. Sykes worked for Levy as an assistant on the film Herostratus. Sykes did an 18-month training cadetship with the BBC then made the documentary Walkabout to Cornwall. He was commissioned to make a series of films for the British Pavilion exhibit at Expo 67 in Montreal. The series was called Britain Around the World. It led to him meeting Peter Brook who invited Sykes to produce Tell Me Lies.