As Actor
Carrière, 250 Meters
2011
10.0
Peter Brook
Acting
Birth Date
March 21, 1925
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Date of Death
July 2, 2022
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.
Complete Filmography
As Director
The Tragedy of Hamlet
2002
8.7
As Director, As Writer
The Mahabharata
1990
6.9
As Writer
Swann in Love
1984
5.6
As Director, As Writer
Red, White, and Zero
1979
5.0
As Director, As Writer
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979
6.4
As Director, As Writer
King Lear
1970
6.6
As Director
Marat/Sade
1967
6.2
As Actor
The Benefit of the Doubt
1967
6.3
As Director, As Writer
Lord of the Flies
1963
6.7
As Writer
King Lear
1953
8.0
As Director
The Beggar's Opera
1953
4.9