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
Cast Credits
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2018
Beckett by Brook
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2018
Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2017
The Roof
Character: Peter Brook
MOVIE • 2016
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Character: Self - Filmmaker
MOVIE • 2014
The Tightrope
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2012
BAM150
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2012
Carrière, 250 Meters
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2011
Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook
Character: Self - Interviewee
MOVIE • 2008
Brook by Brook
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2002
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2000
Bennent mal vier
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1998
Looking for Richard
Character: Self - Interviewee
MOVIE • 1996
The Five Senses of Theatre
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1994
The Empty Space
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1975
Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
TV • 1974
The Benefit of the Doubt
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1967
King Lear
Character: Self – Director
MOVIE • 1953
Crew
Crew Credits
Beckett by Brook
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2018
Don Giovanni
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2002
The Tragedy of Hamlet
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2002
The Tragedy of Hamlet
Role: Adaptation
MOVIE • 2002
The Mahabharata
Role: Writer
TV • 1990
The Mahabharata
Role: Director
TV • 1990
The Mahabharata
Role: Creator
TV • 1990
The Mahabharata
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1990
The Mahabharata
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1990
Swann in Love
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1984
The Tragedy of Carmen
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1983
The Tragedy of Carmen
Role: Scenario Writer
MOVIE • 1983
La Cerisaie
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1982
La Cerisaie
Role: Stage Director
MOVIE • 1982
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1979
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1979
Ride of the Valkyrie
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1977
Ride of the Valkyrie
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1977
King Lear
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1970
King Lear
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1970