Peter Brook

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-03-21 (97 years old)

Deathday

2022-07-02

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

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 theat...

Acting

1998

1953

King Lear

as Self – Director

2002

2012

1996

Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

2012

BAM150

as Self

2018

2016

The Roof

as Peter Brook

1975

2018

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Production

1963

1963

1970

King Lear

as Director

1970

King Lear

as Writer

1967

Marat/Sade

as Director

1949

Box for One

as Writer

1990

The Mahabharata

as Director

2002

1968

Tell Me Lies

as Director

1953

King Lear

as Writer

1982

La Cerisaie

as Director

1963

1953

2002

Don Giovanni

as Director

2018

Beckett by Brook

as Director

1968

Tell Me Lies

as Writer

1983

1968

Tell Me Lies

as Producer

1979

1977

1982

La Cerisaie

as Stage Director

1990

1984

Swann in Love

as Writer

1983

The Tragedy of Carmen

as Scenario Writer

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