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