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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

Birthplace:
Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

Born:
April 13, 1906

Died:
December 22, 1989

Biography from TheMovieDB

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."

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Author:
1986  My Case

Dialogue:
1986  My Case
1994  NEKO-MIMI

Director:
1966  Comédie
1966  He Joe
1973  Not I
1976  Warten auf Godot
1977  ... nur noch Gewölk ...
1977  Ghost Trio
1979  He Joe
1982  Quad I+II
1983  Night and Dreams
1986  My Case
1986  Was Wo
1988  Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1994  NEKO-MIMI
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Novel:
1966  Comédie
1966  He Joe
1973  Not I
1976  Warten auf Godot
1977  ... nur noch Gewölk ...
1977  Ghost Trio
1979  He Joe
1982  Quad I+II
1983  Night and Dreams
1986  My Case
1986  Was Wo
1988  Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1994  NEKO-MIMI
2012  Emancipation in the Brain
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Original Story:
1966  Comédie
1966  He Joe
1973  Not I
1976  Warten auf Godot
1977  ... nur noch Gewölk ...
1977  Ghost Trio
1979  He Joe
1982  Quad I+II
1983  Night and Dreams
1986  My Case
1986  Was Wo
1988  Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1994  NEKO-MIMI
2012  Emancipation in the Brain
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
????  Dada Knows Best

Radio Play:
1963  Tous ceux qui tombent
1966  Comédie
1966  He Joe
1973  Not I
1976  Warten auf Godot
1977  ... nur noch Gewölk ...
1977  Ghost Trio
1979  He Joe
1982  Quad I+II
1983  Night and Dreams
1986  My Case
1986  Was Wo
1988  Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1994  NEKO-MIMI
2012  Emancipation in the Brain
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
????  Dada Knows Best

Theatre Play:
1961  Waiting for Godot
1963  Tous ceux qui tombent
1966  Atto senza parole secondo
1966  Comédie
1966  He Joe
1969  Atto senza parole
1973  Not I
1976  Warten auf Godot
1977  ... nur noch Gewölk ...
1977  Ghost Trio
1979  He Joe
1982  Quad I+II
1983  Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
1983  Night and Dreams
1986  My Case
1986  Was Wo
1988  Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1989  En attendant Godot
1989  Endgame
1994  NEKO-MIMI
2000  Happy Days
2000  Rough for Theatre II
2001  Act Without Words I
2001  Catastrophe
2001  Play
2001  Waiting for Godot
2007  Krapp's Last Tape
2008  Fin de partie
2012  Emancipation in the Brain
2019  En attendant Godot
2021  Waiting for Godot
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
????  Dada Knows Best
????  Waiting for Godot
????  Waiting for Godot

Writer:
1961  Waiting for Godot
1963  Tous ceux qui tombent
1965  Beginning to End
1965  Film
1966  Atto senza parole secondo
1966  Comédie
1966  Eh, Joe?
1966  He Joe
1969  Atto senza parole
1972  Krapp's Last Tape
1973  Not I
1976  Warten auf Godot
1977  ... nur noch Gewölk ...
1977  ...but the clouds...
1977  Ghost Trio
1977  Ghost Trio
1979  Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)
1979  He Joe
1980  Happy Days
1981  Rockaby
1982  Quad I+II
1983  Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
1983  Night and Dreams
1986  My Case
1986  Was Wo
1988  Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1988  Godot in San Quentin
1989  En attendant Godot
1989  Endgame
1994  Be Again
1994  NEKO-MIMI
1998  Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
2000  Come and Go
2000  Endgame
2000  Footfalls
2000  Happy Days
2000  Krapp's Last Tape
2000  Not I
2000  Rockaby
2000  Rough for Theatre I
2000  Rough for Theatre II
2000  That Time
2000  What Where
2001  A Piece of Monologue
2001  Act Without Words I
2001  Act Without Words II
2001  Breath
2001  Catastrophe
2001  Play
2001  Waiting for Godot
2002  Ohio Impromptu
2003  Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2007  Krapp's Last Tape
2008  Fin de partie
2012  Emancipation in the Brain
2013  Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
2013  What Where
2018  Beckett by Brook
2019  En attendant Godot
2020  Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2021  Happy Days
2021  Waiting for Godot
2023  Endgame
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
????  Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
????  Dada Knows Best
????  Waiting for Godot
????  Waiting for Godot

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TV Production

Writer:
1963  Festival

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