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Peter Brook (1925-2022)

Birthplace:
London, England, UK

Born:
March 21, 1925

Died:
July 2, 2022

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Director:
1953  The Beggar's Opera
1960  Seven Days… Seven Nights
1963  Lord of the Flies
1967  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
1968  Tell Me Lies
1971  King Lear
1977  Ride of the Valkyrie
1979  Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979  Red, White, and Zero
1982  La Cerisaie
1983  The Tragedy of Carmen
1990  The Mahabharata
2002  Don Giovanni
2002  The Tragedy of Hamlet
2018  Beckett by Brook

Editor:
1953  The Beggar's Opera
1960  Seven Days… Seven Nights
1963  Lord of the Flies
1967  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
1968  Tell Me Lies
1971  King Lear
1977  Ride of the Valkyrie
1979  Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979  Red, White, and Zero
1982  La Cerisaie
1983  The Tragedy of Carmen
1990  The Mahabharata
2002  Don Giovanni
2002  The Tragedy of Hamlet
2018  Beckett by Brook

Producer:
1953  The Beggar's Opera
1960  Seven Days… Seven Nights
1963  Lord of the Flies
1967  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
1968  Tell Me Lies
1971  King Lear
1977  Ride of the Valkyrie
1979  Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979  Red, White, and Zero
1982  La Cerisaie
1983  The Tragedy of Carmen
1990  The Mahabharata
2002  Don Giovanni
2002  The Tragedy of Hamlet
2018  Beckett by Brook

Stage Director:
1953  The Beggar's Opera
1960  Seven Days… Seven Nights
1963  Lord of the Flies
1967  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
1968  Tell Me Lies
1971  King Lear
1977  Ride of the Valkyrie
1979  Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979  Red, White, and Zero
1982  La Cerisaie
1983  The Tragedy of Carmen
1990  The Mahabharata
2002  Don Giovanni
2002  The Tragedy of Hamlet
2018  Beckett by Brook

Writer:
1949  Box for One
1953  King Lear
1953  The Beggar's Opera
1960  Seven Days… Seven Nights
1963  Lord of the Flies
1967  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
1968  Tell Me Lies
1971  King Lear
1977  Ride of the Valkyrie
1979  Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979  Red, White, and Zero
1982  La Cerisaie
1983  The Tragedy of Carmen
1984  Swann in Love
1990  The Mahabharata
2002  Don Giovanni
2002  The Tragedy of Hamlet
2018  Beckett by Brook

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TV Production

Creator:
1990  The Mahabharata

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