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Born March 21, 1925 · London, England, UK
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.

Beckett by Brook
2018

Don Giovanni
2002

The Tragedy of Hamlet
2002

The Mahabharata
1990

The Tragedy of Carmen
1983

La Cerisaie
1982

Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979

Ride of the Valkyrie
1977

King Lear
1970

Tell Me Lies
1968

Red, White, and Zero
1968

Marat/Sade
1967

Lord of the Flies
1963

Seven Days… Seven Nights
1960

The Beggar's Opera
1953

Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018

Beckett by Brook
2018

Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi
2017

The Roof
2016

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014

The Tightrope
2012

BAM150
2012

Carrière, 250 Meters
2011

Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook
2008

Brook by Brook
2002
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
2000

Looking for Richard
1996
The Five Senses of Theatre
1994

The Empty Space
1975

The Benefit of the Doubt
1967

King Lear
1953