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Peter Brook

Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Additional Credits
Born March 21, 1925Died July 2, 2022 (97 years)
Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (March 21, 1925 – July 2, 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). With them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director. He also directed films such as an iconic version of Lord of the Flies in 1963.

He was based in France from the early 1970s, where he founded an international theatre company, playing in developing countries, in an approach of great simplicity. He was often referred to as "our greatest living theatre director". He won multiple Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Japanese Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri.

Known For

  • Lord of the Flies
  • Marat/Sade
  • Seven Days... Seven Nights
  • Meetings with Remarkable Men
  • King Lear
  • The Mahabharata
  • Swann in Love
  • The Beggar's Opera
  • Tell Me Lies
  • Peter Brook: The Tightrope
  • La tragédie de Carmen
  • Don Giovanni

Peter Brook Filmography

2023
2022
2019
2018
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie · as Self - Filmmaker (archive Footage)
2014
2012
2012
Bam150 · as Self
1996
Looking for Richard · as Self - Interviewee
1993
Menschen hautnah (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1987
Night of the Molières (TV Series) · as Self - Molière D'honneur - Molière Du Spectacle Musical
1978
The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self
1975
Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Self
1964
Late Night Line-Up (TV Series) · as Self
1955
ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator
1954
Camera Three (TV Series) · as Self
1952
Omnibus (TV Series) · as Self - Director
1952
Today (TV Series) · as Self

2002
The Tragedy of Hamlet · as Adaptation
1983
La tragédie de Carmen · as Scenario Writer
1952
Omnibus (TV Series) · as Teleplay

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