Cast & creator
Peter Brook
Best known for The South Bank Show, Spécial cinéma, Lord of the Flies
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 credits
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television credits
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1949–2022 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (54)
Showing 54 of 54 credits
The South Bank Show
1978
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Lord of the Flies
Director
1963Lord of the Flies
Editor
1963Lord of the Flies
Writer
1963
Pour le plaisir
Self
1964
King Lear
Director
1970King Lear
Writer
1970
The Mahabharata
Writer
1990The Mahabharata
Director
1990The Mahabharata
Creator
1990
Swann in Love
Writer
1984
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
1996
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker
2014
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
Director
1967
The Mahabharata
Director
1990The Mahabharata
Writer
1990
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Don Giovanni
Director
2002
The Roof
Peter Brook
2016
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Director
1979Meetings with Remarkable Men
Writer
1979
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018
Red, White, and Zero
Director
1968Red, White, and Zero
Writer
1968
Tell Me Lies
Director
1968Tell Me Lies
Writer
1968Tell Me Lies
Producer
1968
The Beggar's Opera
Director
1953
Ride of the Valkyrie
Writer
1977Ride of the Valkyrie
Director
1977
King Lear
Self – Director
1953King Lear
Writer
1953
The Benefit of the Doubt
Self
1967
Brook by Brook
Self
2002
The Tragedy of Hamlet
Director
2002The Tragedy of Hamlet
Adaptation
2002The Five Senses of Theatre
Self
1994
Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi
Self
2017
Seven Days… Seven Nights
Director
1960
The Tightrope
Self
2012
The Tragedy of Carmen
Director
1983The Tragedy of Carmen
Scenario Writer
1983
La Cerisaie
Director
1982La Cerisaie
Stage Director
1982Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
Self
2000
The Empty Space
Self
1975
BAM150
Self
2012Box for One
Writer
1949
Carrière, 250 Meters
Self
2011
Beckett by Brook
Self
2018Beckett by Brook
Director
2018
Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook
Self - Interviewee
2008Making 'The Mahabharata'
Self
1989