Peter Brook Filmography

Born:: March 21, 1925 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Though British director Peter Brook has accumulated an impressive number of film and television credits spanning seven decades, Brook is primarily a director of theatrical productions. Nevertheless, he gained his start with a movie; as an Oxford undergraduate student, Brook directed an amateur...Read More

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Seven And a Match

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tina Holmes, Eion Bailey, Devon Gummersall, Heather Donahue

Synopsis: It's not uncommon to invite your friends to help you paint your house or move your home, but one twenty-something has something a bit different in mind in this character-driven comedy-drama. Five years after graduating from college, Ellie (Tina Holmes) and her boyfriend Tim (Daniel Serafini-Sauli) Read More

2001
A Sense of the Sacred: A Portrait of Helen M. Luke

Synopsis: Helen M. Luke studied psychological and spiritual issues throughout her life. This film looks at her early life in England and her later career as a Jungian psychologist in America. While working at Michigan's Apple Farm, Luke helped many people explore their inner lives, grapple with life's Read More

1999
Looking for Richard

Actors: Al Pacino, Harris Yulin, Penelope Allen, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: A workshop of William Shakespeare's Richard III inspires actor-director Al Pacino's breezy documentary, which aims to make the playwright accessible to contemporary American audiences. Though a noteworthy cast of stage actors and Hollywood stars (including Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin Read More

1996
The Mahabharata

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Langton-Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Peter Brook's adaptation of the main Hindu religious text first appeared as a nine-hour stage version, but was shortened to six for this film (available on three cassettes). The story, impossible to summarize without glossing over most if not all of the plot, loosely concerns the problems between Read More

1989
Swann in Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed Read More

1984
With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadówka 1980

Actors: Jerzy Grotowski

Synopsis: The gifted and intuitive, Oscar-nominated director Jill Godmilow (Antonia: Portrait of a Woman) in 1974) helms this 1980 documentary - an intimate, deeply-felt portrait of Polish theatrical legend Jerzy Grotowski. Grotowski (familiar to many given André Gregory's discussion of him in My Dinner Read More

1980
La Tragedie De Carmen

Crew: Director

Actors: Helene Delavault, Eva Saurova, Howard Hensel, Laurence Dale

Synopsis: Director Peter Brook's Carmen (the spirited woman who loves Escamillo, the bullfighter, but dallies with the soldier Don José) is a filmed version of his popular chamber ensemble presentation of the opera. On the stage, Brook cut the opera down to a more intimate production and trimmed its length Read More

1980
Meetings with Remarkable Men

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Athol Fugard, Gerry Sundquist, Donald Sumpter

Synopsis: Peter Brook, one of the pioneers of the experimental theatre movement of the 1950s and 1960s, was the director of Meetings with Remarkable Men. Brook tells the story of Asian mystic G. I. Gurdijeff, here played by Dragan Maksimovic. Gurdijeff devotes his entire existence, from youth to old age, in Read More

1979
King Lear

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cyril Cusack, Susan Engel, Anne-Lise Gabold, Jack MacGowran, Patrick Magee, Alan Webb, Irene Worth, Paul Scofield

Synopsis: In director Peter Brook's King Lear, Paul Scofield portrays the title character, a senile old ruler, whose susceptibility to flattery proves his undoing. The premise involves Lear's ill-fated attempts to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters -- a goal that ultimately leads to tragedy. The Read More

1971
Tell Me Lies

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mark Jones, Pauline Munroe, Robert Lloyd, Eric Allan, Paul Scofield, Mary Allen

Synopsis: Subtitled A Film About London, this drama is a quintessential experimental counter-culture film of the late 1960s that centers on the questions raised by the Vietnam war. Renowned Shakespearean theater director Peter Brook serves as producer and director. It includes many members of the Read More

1968
The Benefit of the Doubt

Actors: Peter Brook, Eric Allan, Mary Allen, Jeremy Anthony

Synopsis: Benefit of the Doubt had its roots in US, a Peter Brook play produced by the Royal Shakespearean Company. This anti-war documentary blossomed into a multi-media presentation, then to a 70-minute film. The movie version expands upon Brook's piece with authentic newsreel footage of the Vietnam War. Read More

1967
Marat / Sade

Crew: Director

Actors: Ian Richardson, Patrick Magee, Ruth Baker, Glenda Jackson, Brenda Kempner, Clifford Rose, Freddie Jones, Michael Williams

Synopsis: Adapted from his own Royal Shakespeare Company production of Peter Weiss' play entitled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, Peter Brook directs this fascinating look into revolution, power, and Read More

1966
Lord of the Flies

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman

Synopsis: Peter Brooks' big-screen adaptation of William Golding's classic Lord of the Flies adheres closely to the source material. After a plane accident, 30 school-age boys find themselves stranded on an island. The boys decide that the disciplined Ralph (James Aubrey) will be their leader. Jack (Tom Chapin Read More

1963
Moderato Cantabile

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Didier Haudepin, Jeanne Moreau, Pascale de Boysson

Synopsis: In this drama, an industrialist's wife finds herself bored by her opulent existence. One day, while she waits for her son to finish his music lesson, she hears a woman scream at a nearby bistro. She then sees a man being hauled away from a woman's body. Her curiosity piqued, she becomes a regular Read More

5/25/60
King Lear

Crew: Director

Actors: Orson Welles, Natasha Parry, Arnold Moss, Bramwell Fletcher, David J. Stewart

Synopsis: One of the first important distinctions to be made about this version of King Lear is that it is not the same version directed by Peter Brook in 1971. Brook was responsible for the staging of this 1953 version, but it was Andrew McCullough who put it to film. Orson Welles portrays the titular Read More

1953
The Beggar's Opera

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, George Devine, Hugh Griffith, Daphne Anderson, Mary Clare, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier makes his singing debut in this lively adaptation of John Gay's 18th century theatrical piece The Beggar's Opera. Olivier stars as Captain MacHeath, the leader of all bandits and cutthroats in England. MacHeath is in love with Polly Peachum (Dorothy Tutin), the daughter of beggar Read More

1953
Akropolis
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