Peter Brook

Directing

1925-03-21 · London, England, UK

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

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

2022 · Movie

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

2018 · Movie

Beckett by Brook

2018 · Movie

Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi

2017 · Movie

The Roof

2016 · Movie

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

2014 · Movie

The Tightrope

2012 · Movie

BAM150

2012 · Movie

Carrière, 250 Meters

2011 · Movie

Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook

2008 · Movie

Don Giovanni

2002 · Movie

The Tragedy of Hamlet

2002 · Movie

Brook by Brook

2002 · Movie

Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom

2000 · Movie

Looking for Richard

1996 · Movie

The Five Senses of Theatre

1994 · Movie

The Mahabharata

1990 · Series

The Mahabharata

1990 · Movie

Making 'The Mahabharata'

1989 · Movie

Swann in Love

1984 · Movie

The Tragedy of Carmen

1983 · Movie

La Cerisaie

1982 · Movie

Meetings with Remarkable Men

1979 · Movie

Ride of the Valkyrie

1977 · Movie

The Empty Space

1975 · Movie

Spécial cinéma

1974 · Series

King Lear

1970 · Movie

Tell Me Lies

1968 · Movie

Red, White, and Zero

1968 · Movie

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

1967 · Movie