FILM DIRECTOR

Peter Brook

1925 - 2022

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Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Brook has received more than 862,914 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Peter Brook is the 85th most popular film director (up from 99th in 2019), the 405th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 478th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Film Director.

Peter Brook is most famous for his work in theater, film, and opera. He has been a director, producer, and writer for many theater productions including "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The Mahabharata." He has also directed films such as "The Mahabharata" and "The Lord of the Flies."

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  • 860k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Peter Brook ranks 85 out of 2,041. Before him are Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Costa-Gavras, Dario Argento, Carlos Saura, and F. W. Murnau. After him are Fred Zinnemann, Wolfgang Petersen, Satyajit Ray, Jim Jarmusch, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Richard Attenborough.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Peter Brook ranks 36. Before him are Nílton Santos, Gabriele Amorth, Simon van der Meer, Frantz Fanon, Ernst Happel, and Paul Mauriat. After him are Oona O'Neill, Pierre Boulez, Bert Hellinger, Gerald Durrell, George Kennedy, and Sam Peckinpah. Among people deceased in 2022, Peter Brook ranks 31. Before him are Kane Tanaka, Sidney Poitier, Dietrich Mateschitz, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Angela Lansbury, and Lata Mangeshkar. After him are Wolfgang Petersen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Bruno Latour, Mylène Demongeot, Ray Liotta, and James Caan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Brook ranks 405 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Owen (1804), A. A. Milne (1882), Daniel Craig (1968), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), Jackie Stewart (1939), and Arthur Eddington (1882). After him are Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), Edgar the Peaceful (943), Charles Lyell (1797), Henry Moseley (1887), Bob Hoskins (1942), and Anne Hathaway (1556).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Peter Brook ranks 7. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock (1899), Ridley Scott (1937), Ken Loach (1936), Alan Parker (1944), Tony Scott (1944), and Christopher Nolan (1970). After him are Richard Attenborough (1923), David Lean (1908), Peter Greenaway (1942), Stephen Frears (1941), Mike Newell (1942), and Danny Boyle (1956).

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Filmography

Lord of the Flies
Director
Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to crumble when a breakaway faction regresses to savagery with horrifying consequences.
Aug 13o 19636.725 / 10
Seven Days… Seven Nights
Director
Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her.
May 25o 19606.2 / 10
Marat/Sade
Director
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on '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', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
Feb 22o 19676.1 / 10