question: Kevin Cooney appeared in which film directed by Peter Weir ?
answer: Dead Poets Society
context: Title: Mel Gibson filmography
  Passage: Mel Gibson, AO, is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who made his acting debut on the Australian television drama series "The Sullivans" (1976– 1983).  While a student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, he was given an uncredited role in "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" and subsequently appeared as a leading actor in the micro budget surf drama "Summer City" (both in 1977).  Gibson rose to prominence during the Australian New Wave cinema movement in the early 1980s, having appeared in his breakthrough role in George Miller's dystopian action film "Mad Max" (1979), portraying the eponymous hero.  He reprised the role in its sequels, "Mad Max 2" (1981) and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985).  He appeared in Peter Weir's war drama "Gallipoli" (1981) and the romantic drama "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1982).  Five years later he played Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action comedy "Lethal Weapon" alongside Danny Glovera role he later reprised in its sequels "Lethal Weapon 2" (1989), "Lethal Weapon 3" (1992), and "Lethal Weapon 4" (1998).
  Title: Kevin Cooney
  Passage: Kevin Cooney (born October 2, 1945) is an American film and television actor.  He has appeared in films such as "North Dallas Forty" (1979), "Deadly Blessing" (1981), "The Trip to Bountiful" (1985), "Full Moon in Blue Water" (1988), "Dead Poets Society" (1989), "Arctic Blue" (1993), "Con Air" (1997), "Clockwatchers" (1997), "Primary Colors" (1998), "Legally Blonde" (2001), "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002), and the television series "Dharma & Greg", "", "The King of Queens", and others.
  Title: Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)
  Passage: Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray and Dominic Guard.  The film was adapted by Cliff Green from the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, who was deliberately ambiguous about whether the events really took place, although the story is in fact entirely fictitious.
  Title: Viggo Mortensen
  Passage: Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. ( ; ] ; born October 20, 1958) is a Danish-American actor, author, musician, photographer, poet and painter.  He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller "Witness", and appeared in many notable films of subsequent years, including "The Indian Runner" (1991), "Carlito's Way" (1993), "Crimson Tide" (1995), "Daylight" (1996), "The Portrait of a Lady" (1996), "G.I. Jane" (1997), "A Perfect Murder" (1998), "A Walk on the Moon" (1999), and "28 Days" (2000).
  Title: The Truman Show
  Passage: The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical science fiction film directed by Peter Weir, produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, and written by Niccol.  The film stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, adopted and raised by a corporation inside a simulated television show revolving around his life, until he discovers it and decides to escape; additional roles are provided by Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris, and Brian Delate.
  Title: The Mosquito Coast
  Passage: The Mosquito Coast is a 1986 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Andre Gregory, and River Phoenix.  It is based on the novel of the same name by Paul Theroux.  The film tells the story of a family that leaves the United States and tries to find a happier and simpler life in the jungles of Central America.  However, their jungle paradise quickly turns into a dystopia as their stubborn father's behavior becomes increasingly erratic and aggressive.  It was shot in the cities of Cartersville and Rome in Georgia, in addition to Baltimore, Maryland, and Belize.
  Title: Dead Poets Society
  Passage: Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir, written by Tom Schulman, and starring Robin Williams.  Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative Vermont boarding school Welton Academy, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
  Title: The Plumber (1979 film)
  Passage: The Plumber is a 1979 Australian psychological thriller film about a psychotic plumber who befriends a woman.  Written and directed by Peter Weir, "The Plumber" was originally made and broadcast as a television film in Australia in 1979 but was subsequently released to theaters in several countries beginning with the United States in 1981.  The film was made shortly after Weir's critically acclaimed "Picnic at Hanging Rock" became one of the first Australian films to appeal to an international audience.  The film stars Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, and Robert Coleby, all of them being most notable as actors in Australian soap operas.
  Title: The Year of Living Dangerously (film)
  Passage: The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Australian romantic, drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson adapted from Christopher Koch's 1978 novel "The Year of Living Dangerously".  The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno.  It follows a group of foreign correspondents in Jakarta on the eve of an attempted coup by the 30 September Movement in 1965.
  Title: The Way Back
  Passage: The Way Back is a 2010 American survival drama film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke.  The film is inspired by "The Long Walk" (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles to freedom in World War II.  The film stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan, with Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Gustaf Skarsgård, Dragoş Bucur and Mark Strong.
citations: Dead Poets Society Kevin Cooney