Peter Brook
Director
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.
Filmography
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee 1996
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker 2014
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2018
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
The Roof
as Peter Brook 2016
The Benefit of the Doubt
as Self 1967
King Lear
as Self – Director 1953
Carrière, 250 Meters
as Self 2011
Brook by Brook
as Self 2002
The Empty Space
as Self 1975
Bennent mal vier
as Self 1998
The Tightrope
as Self 2012
BAM150
as Self 2012
The Five Senses of Theatre
as Self 1994
Beckett by Brook
as Self 2018
Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook
as Self - Interviewee 2008
Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi
as Self 2017