Samuel Beckett
April 13, 1906 (118 years old) in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Known For
Credits
- 2019 · Barney's Wall as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Notfilm as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · Das Jahrhundert des Theaters as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · Waiting for Beckett as Self
- 1987 · Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence as
- 1983 · Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' as Self (archive footage)
- 1969 · Beckett in Berlin as Self
- 1969 · Samuel Beckett - Mute Interview as Self