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Peter Brook
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…
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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
Movies and shows, newest first
- 2022
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2018
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2018
Beckett by Brook
Movie Self
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2017
Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi
Movie Self
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2016
The Roof
Movie Peter Brook
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2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2012
The Tightrope
Movie Self
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2012
BAM150
Movie Self
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2011
Carrière, 250 Meters
Movie Self
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2008
Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2002
Don Giovanni
Movie Director
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2002
The Tragedy of Hamlet
Movie Director
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2002
Brook by Brook
Movie Self
- 2000
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1996
Looking for Richard
Movie Self - Interviewee
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1994
The Five Senses of Theatre
Movie Self
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1990
The Mahabharata
TV show Writer
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1990
The Mahabharata
Movie Director
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1989
Making 'The Mahabharata'
Movie Self
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1984
Swann in Love
Movie Writer
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1983
The Tragedy of Carmen
Movie Director
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1982
La Cerisaie
Movie Director
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1979
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Movie Director
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1977
Ride of the Valkyrie
Movie Writer
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1975
The Empty Space
Movie Self
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1974
Spécial cinéma
TV show Self
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1970
King Lear
Movie Director
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1968
Tell Me Lies
Movie Director
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1968
Red, White, and Zero
Movie Director
- 1967
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1967
The Benefit of the Doubt
Movie Self
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1964
Pour le plaisir
TV show Self
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1963
Lord of the Flies
Movie Director
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1960
Seven Days… Seven Nights
Movie Director
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1953
King Lear
Movie Self – Director
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1953
The Beggar's Opera
Movie Director
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1949
Box for One
Movie Writer
