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Aug 21, 2018 · Once in the U.K., Medak embarked on a film career, learning from the bottom up until his first feature, “Negatives,” in 1968, starring Glenda Jackson.
- Jamie Righetti
In The Ghost of Peter Sellers, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival in 2018 and has just had its virtual screening release, we learn that Hungarian-born Medak was a rising directing star in the early 1970s in London, hot off the Oscar-nominated Peter O’Toole film The Ruling Class.
In 1967 he signed a feature directing deal with Paramount and the following year his first feature-length film, Negatives, was released. Throughout his career, Medak had directed a steady balance of both television and film.
After I watched the film as part of this year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, I had the chance to talk with the legendary Peter Medak about his new documentary, reconciling the past, his many friendships with some of Hollywood’s best, how he handles his actors and how he met Cary Grant through a car accident.
Medak was signed to direct television films for MCA Universal Pictures in 1963. In 1967, he signed with Paramount Pictures to make feature films. His first such film was Negatives (1968).
Jul 20, 2020 · Peter Medak with his first wife, Catherine Marie La Kermance, in Los Angeles, 1963. The whole thing started around 1975, when I was going to do Demon Seed at MGM. I didn’t really want to make that movie, but then I had the idea for Evening Flight .
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Medak had made three well-received films in five years, including The Ruling Class in 1972 with Peter O’ Toole (nominated both for the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award). The 1973 failed effort with Sellers put a significant damper on Medak's career.
