Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 21, 1925
Died
Jul 02, 2022
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
38 titles
Peter Brook
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.
Known For
Filmography
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Beckett by Brook
Self
Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi
Self
The Roof
Peter Brook
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker
The Tightrope
Self
BAM150
Self
Carrière, 250 Meters
Self
Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook
Self - Interviewee
Don Giovanni
Director
The Tragedy of Hamlet
Director
Brook by Brook
Self
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
Self
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
The Five Senses of Theatre
Self
The Mahabharata
Writer
The Mahabharata
Director
Making 'The Mahabharata'
Self
Swann in Love
Writer
The Tragedy of Carmen
Director
La Cerisaie
Director
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Writer
The South Bank Show
Ride of the Valkyrie
Director
The Empty Space
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
King Lear
Director
Tell Me Lies
Director
Red, White, and Zero
Director
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Director
The Benefit of the Doubt
Self
Pour le plaisir
Self
Lord of the Flies
Editor
Seven Days… Seven Nights
Director
King Lear
Self – Director
The Beggar's Opera
Director
Box for One
Writer