Peter Brook
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 21, 1925, London, England, UK
- Died
- July 2, 2022
- Movies
- 36
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.
Best-Known Movies
Lord of the Flies
1963
Looking for Richard
1996
Swann in Love
1984
Seven Days… Seven Nights
1960
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
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
King Lear
1970
The Mahabharata
1990
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979
Tell Me Lies
1968
Filmography
| 2022 | Belmondo: The Incorrigible | |
| 2018 | Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Beckett by Brook | Self |
| 2017 | Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi | Self |
| 2016 | The Roof | Peter Brook |
| 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Filmmaker |
| 2012 | The Tightrope | Self |
| 2012 | BAM150 | Self |
| 2011 | Carrière, 250 Meters | Self |
| 2008 | Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook | Self - Interviewee |
| 2002 | Brook by Brook | Self |
| 2000 | Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom | Self |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee |
| 1994 | The Five Senses of Theatre | Self |
| 1989 | Making 'The Mahabharata' | Self |
| 1975 | The Empty Space | Self |
| 1967 | The Benefit of the Doubt | Self |
| 1953 | King Lear | Self – Director |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2018 | Beckett by Brook | Director |
| 2002 | Don Giovanni | Director |
| 2002 | The Tragedy of Hamlet | Director |
| 1990 | The Mahabharata | Director, Writer |
| 1984 | Swann in Love | Writer |
| 1983 | The Tragedy of Carmen | Director |
| 1982 | La Cerisaie | Director |
| 1979 | Meetings with Remarkable Men | Writer, Director |
| 1977 | Ride of the Valkyrie | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | King Lear | Director, Writer |
| 1968 | Tell Me Lies | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1968 | Red, White, and Zero | Director, Writer |
| 1967 | 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 | Director |
| 1963 | Lord of the Flies | Director, Writer |
| 1960 | Seven Days… Seven Nights | Director |
| 1953 | King Lear | Writer |
| 1953 | The Beggar's Opera | Director |
| 1949 | Box for One | Writer |
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