Peter Hall Filmography

Born:: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: A stage director while still a student, Hall soon achieved prominence directing plays and as managing director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. An occasional film director starting with the 1968 satire Work Is a Four-Letter Word, Hall has had an eclectic career, ranging from the adultery drama Three Into Two Won't Go...Read More

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La Cenerentola

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Glyndebourne Festival Opera mounted this lavish production of 19th Century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's 1817 opera La Cenerentola, which reunites Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski and theatrical director Sir Peter Hall and stars Lucia Cirillo and Raquela Sheeran. The Glyndebourne Read More

2005
Simon Boccanegra

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Elena Prokina and Giancarlo Pasquetto star in this stage production of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, directed by Peter Hall and mounted at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. John Gunter designed the sets and costumes; The London Philharmonic Orchestra provides musical accompaniment. ~ Nathan Read More

1998
The Final Passage

Crew: Director

1996
Never Talk to Strangers

Crew: Director

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas, Dennis Miller, Len Cariou, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: A beautiful but reserved criminal psychiatrist must deal with the obsessive stalking of a dangerous killer in this erotically charged thriller. The film's central tension emerges from the relationship between Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca DeMornay), a highly professional psychologist, and a handsome Read More

1995
Jacob

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Bean, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: The biblical story of Jacob explored in this made-for-TV movie starring Matthew Modine as the titular religious figure and Lara Flynn Boyle as his love Rachel. Set against the backdrop of Jacob's many trials from God throughout his life, Turner Pictures' production focuses on the romantic aspect Read More

1994
The Camomile Lawn

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Good Neighbors co-stars Felicity Kendal and Paul Eddington reunite for director Ken Taylor's adaptation of Mary Wesley's popular novel concerning the innocent summer before war changed everything, and the relationship shared by five cousins as they gather to pay tribute to their deceased uncle Read More

1992
Salome

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Conductor Edward Downes leads The Royal Opera in Richard Strauss' one act drama in this performance offering libretto from Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's original work. Peter Hall directs, and Maria Ewing, Michael Devlin, and Kenneth Riegel star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

1992
Orpheus Descending

Crew: Director

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Kevin Anderson

Synopsis: This made-for-cable adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play documents the romance between a lonely Southern belle (Vanessa Redgrave) and a young drifter (Kevin Anderson). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
She's Been Away

Crew: Director

Actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Geraldine James, James Fox, Jack Kyle, Rebecca Pidgeon

Synopsis: In her final film, celebrated British actress Peggy Ashcroft portrays one Lillian Huckle. Released from a mental institution after 60 years, Lillian is taken in her nephew (James Fox) and his somewhat trepidatious family. As they (and we) get to know Lillian better, the many social and emotional Read More

1989
Orfeo ed Euridice (Glyndebourne Festival Opera)

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi and composer Christoph Gluck co-crafted the opera Orfeo ed Eurydice, adapting the basic narrative from the mythical legend that recounts Orpheus's rescue of his bride, Eurydice, from the underworld. This filmed record of the 1982 production of Orfeo, as staged at Read More

1982
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Glyndebourne)

Crew: Stage Director

Synopsis: This video presents a performance of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The story of fairies and the hapless lovers caught in their magic spells has delighted audiences for centuries. This show takes place at Glyndebourne's Festival Opera. Ileana Cortrubus, Curt Appelgren Read More

1981
Don Giovanni [Glyndebourne Festival Opera]

Crew: Producer

Actors: Benjamin Luxon

Synopsis: This performance of Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni features the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Akenfield

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: The renowned director of England's National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Peter Hall, produced and directed this unusual film, adapted from the book Akenfield, which summarizes a sociological study of village life in Suffolk. The amateur cast mostly play themselves or close Read More

1974
Le Nozze di Figaro

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, and Kiri Te Kanawa headline this production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's classic opera in this performance captured live at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival in 1973. Conductor John Pritchard leads The London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Chorus. ~ Jason Read More

1973
The Homecoming

Crew: Director

Actors: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant, Terence Rigby, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: In The Homecoming, adapted from the play by Harold Pinter, Michael Jayston brings his wife Vivien Merchant home to visit his long-estranged family. Jayston's father Paul Rogers is a washout, his uncle Cyril Cusack is on the edge of senility, and his brothers Ian Holm and Terence Rigby are Read More

1973
Perfect Friday

Crew: Director

Actors: Ursula Andress, David Warner, Stanley Baker, Patience Collier, T.P. McKenna

Synopsis: A trio of aspiring crooks plan to steal a million dollars in this crime comedy. Lord Nicholas (David Warner) and his Swiss wife Britt (Ursula Andress) are the jet-set couple who have spent all their money and seek a loan from the bank. She asks Graham (Stanley Baker) for a loan, but the mid-level Read More

1970
Three Into Two Won't Go

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: American actor Rod Steiger adopts a British accent to keep apace with his co-stars in Three into Two Won't Go. Steiger plays a prosperous salesman, married to Claire Bloom (Steiger's real-life wife at the time). While on a business trip, the salesman falls for a sexy 19-year-old hitchhiker (Judy Geeson Read More

1969
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Crew: Director

Actors: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Hugh Sullivan, Nicholas Selby, David Warner

Synopsis: British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the Royal Shakespeare Company, is faithful to the text and to the main plot, which involves the "bewitching" of several groups of mortals by a covey of mischievous invisible fairies. So why did Read More

1968
Work Is a Four Letter Word

Crew: Director

Actors: David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin

Synopsis: Set in a futuristic world where man and machines compete, this comical fantasy centers upon a rather eccentric man who prefers raising his special giant, euphoria-producing mushrooms to working and spending time with his fiancee. He means well, for he believes that his funny fungus will help Read More

1968
War of the Roses

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: David Warner, Roy Dotrice, Paul Martin

Synopsis: Originally staged in 1963, War of the Roses was one of the most controversial and ambitious projects ever undertaken by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. Flying in the face of adverse criticism from the more conservative theatrical scholars, John Burton and Peter Hall condensed the Bard's Henry Read More

1964