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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Release Date:02/04/2018
Beckett by Brook
Character:Self
Release Date:18/03/2018
Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi
Character:Self
Release Date:18/12/2017
The Roof
Character:Peter Brook
Release Date:31/03/2016
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:12/12/2014
The Tightrope
Character:Self
Release Date:01/09/2012
BAM150
Character:Self
Release Date:27/04/2012
Carrière, 250 Meters
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2011
Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:01/01/2008
Brook by Brook
Character:Self
Release Date:24/01/2002
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
Character:Self
Release Date:07/10/2000
Bennent mal vier
Character:Self
Release Date:06/12/1998
Looking for Richard
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:11/10/1996
The Five Senses of Theatre
Character:Self
Release Date:29/05/1994
The Empty Space
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1975
The Benefit of the Doubt
Character:Self
Release Date:02/01/1967
King Lear
Character:Self – Director
Release Date:18/10/1953
Television Appearances
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