Peter Brook

Directing·Mar 21, 1925·London, England, UK

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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.

Film	Credit
Belmondo: The Incorrigible2022 · Actor	Actor
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit2018 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Beckett by Brook2018 · Self, Director	Self, Director
Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi2017 · Self	Self
The Roof2016 · Peter Brook	Peter Brook
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles2014 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
The Tightrope2012 · Self	Self
BAM1502012 · Self	Self
Carrière, 250 Meters2011 · Self	Self
Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook2008 · Self - Interviewee	Self - Interviewee
Don Giovanni2002 · Director	Director
The Tragedy of Hamlet2002 · Director	Director
Brook by Brook2002 · Self	Self
FFull Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom2000 · Self	Self
Looking for Richard1996 · Self - Interviewee	Self - Interviewee
TThe Five Senses of Theatre1994 · Self	Self
The Mahabharata1990 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Swann in Love1984 · Writer	Writer
The Tragedy of Carmen1983 · Director	Director
La Cerisaie1982 · Director	Director
Meetings with Remarkable Men1979 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Ride of the Valkyrie1977 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Empty Space1975 · Self	Self
King Lear1970 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Tell Me Lies1968 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Red, White, and Zero1968 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
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 Sade1967 · Director	Director
The Benefit of the Doubt1967 · Self	Self
Lord of the Flies1963 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Seven Days… Seven Nights1960 · Director	Director
King Lear1953 · Self – Director, Writer	Self – Director, Writer
The Beggar's Opera1953 · Director	Director
BBox for One1949 · Writer	Writer