Acting credits
10
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Stephen Quay
Directing
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Movies: 52Series: 0Crew credits: 44
TMDB ID: 124237
IMDb ID: nm0703028
Known for: Directing
Born: June 17, 1947
Age: 78
Place of birth: Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1979 - 2025
Years active: 47
Average TMDB rating: 6.48
Wikidata: Q18045614
Other jobs
Director (41)Animation (1)Editor (1)Thanks (1)
Biography
Stephen Quay was born in 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art and later continued his education at the Royal College of Art in London, where he met his twin brother Timothy and began collaborating in animation. Together, they founded Atelier Koninck and produced their first experimental short films in the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Stephen has directed and co-directed short films, feature films, and stop-motion projects, including Nocturna Artificialia (1979), Street of Crocodiles (1986), Institute Benjamenta (1995), and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005). His work is characterized by dreamlike, detailed, and symbolic worlds, often using dolls and carefully crafted objects to create surreal and unsettling atmospheres.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Stephen Quay.
6.0
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Director
2025 Movie
Ghosts and Whispers
Director
2022 Movie
6.0
11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem
Director
2021 Movie
7.0
VadeMecum
Director
2021 Movie
6.0
The Doll's Breath
Director
2019 Movie
5.0
The Music of Zdeněk Liška
as Self
2017 Movie
6.0
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015 Movie
6.1
Quay
as Self
2015 Movie
6.1
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Animation
2013 Movie
6.4
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
Director
2011 Movie
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers
as Self
2011 Movie
6.0
Wonderwood: Comme des garçons
Director
2010 Movie
7.0
Maska
Director
2010 Movie
Inside The Institute
2010 Movie
The Art of Time
2009 Movie
Kinoteka Ident
Director
2009 Movie
4.0
The Bug Trainer
as Self - stop-motion animator
2009 Movie
5.0
Inventorium of Traces
Director
2009 Movie
5.6
Eurydice: She, So Beloved
Editor
2007 Movie
5.3
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Director
2007 Movie
9.0
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
Director
2007 Movie
The Making of "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes"
2006 Movie
6.3
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Director
2005 Movie
6.0
Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003
Director
2004 Movie