Peter Brook
Born: 1925-03-21 in London, England, UK
Died: 2022-07-02
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2018
- Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Beckett by Brook as Self
2017
- Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi as Self
2016
- The Roof as Peter Brook
2014
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker
2012
- The Tightrope as Self
- BAM150 as Self
2011
- Carrière, 250 Meters as Self
2008
- Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook as Self - Interviewee
2002
- Don Giovanni ... (Director)
- The Tragedy of Hamlet ... (Director)
- Brook by Brook as Self
2000
1998
- Bennent mal vier as Self
1996
- Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
1994
- The Five Senses of Theatre as Self
1990
- The Mahabharata ... (Writer)
- The Mahabharata ... (Director)
1984
- Swann in Love ... (Writer)
1983
- The Tragedy of Carmen ... (Director)
1982
- La Cerisaie ... (Director)
1979
- Meetings with Remarkable Men ... (Director)
1977
- Ride of the Valkyrie ... (Writer)
1975
- The Empty Space as Self
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
1970
- King Lear ... (Director)
1968
- Red, White, and Zero ... (Director)
- Tell Me Lies ... (Director)
1967
- Marat/Sade ... (Director)
- The Benefit of the Doubt as Self
1963
- Lord of the Flies ... (Director)
1960
- Seven Days… Seven Nights ... (Director)
1953
- King Lear as Self – Director
- The Beggar's Opera ... (Director)
1949
- Box for One ... (Writer)