Peter Brook

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Lord of the Flies (1963) — Director
2. Seven Days… Seven Nights (1960) — Director
3. 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) — Director
4. King Lear (1970) — Director
5. The Mahabharata (1990) — Director
6. Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) — Director
7. Tell Me Lies (1968) — Director
8. The Beggar's Opera (1953) — Director
9. The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002) — Director
10. La Cerisaie (1982) — Director
11. Ride of the Valkyrie (1977) — Director
12. Don Giovanni (2002) — Director
13. Red, White, and Zero (1968) — Director
14. The Mahabharata (1990) — Director
15. Beckett by Brook (2018) — Director
16. The Tragedy of Carmen (1983) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Looking for Richard (1996) — Self - Interviewee
2. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) — Self - Filmmaker
3. Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit (2018) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
4. Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
5. The Benefit of the Doubt (1967) — Self
6. King Lear (1953) — Self – Director
7. The Roof (2016) — Peter Brook
8. Brook by Brook (2002) — Self
9. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
10. Carrière, 250 Meters (2011) — Self
11. The Empty Space (1975) — Self
12. Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom (2000) — Self
13. The Tightrope (2012) — Self
14. BAM150 (2012) — Self
15. The Five Senses of Theatre (1994) — Self
16. Beckett by Brook (2018) — Self
17. Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook (2008) — Self - Interviewee
18. Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi (2017) — Self
19. Pour le plaisir (1964) — Self