Peter Brook

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: London, England, UK, 1925-03-21

Died: 2022-07-02

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	King Lear	Self – Director	80
2	1967	The Benefit of the Doubt	Self	63
3	1975	The Empty Space	Self	100
4	1994	The Five Senses of Theatre	Self	0
5	1996	Looking for Richard	Self - Interviewee	68
6	1998	Bennent mal vier	Self	0
7	2000	Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom	Self	0
8	2002	Brook by Brook	Self	60
9	2008	Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook	Self - Interviewee	0
10	2011	Carrière, 250 Meters	Self	100
11	2012	BAM150	Self	0
12	2012	The Tightrope	Self	0
13	2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Filmmaker	67
14	2016	The Roof	Peter Brook	63
15	2017	Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi	Self	0
16	2018	Beckett by Brook	Self	0
17	2018	Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	70

Peter Brook

Film

Television