Peter Brook
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
Credits
- 2018 · Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2018 · Beckett by Brook as Self
- 2017 · Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi as Self
- 2016 · The Roof as Peter Brook
- 2014 · Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker
- 2012 · The Tightrope as Self
- 2012 · BAM150 as Self
- 2011 · Carrière, 250 Meters as Self
- 2008 · Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook as Self - Interviewee
- 2002 · Brook by Brook as Self
- 1998 · Bennent mal vier as Self
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- 1994 · The Five Senses of Theatre as Self
- 1975 · The Empty Space as Self
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1967 · The Benefit of the Doubt as Self
- 1953 · King Lear as Self – Director