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Peter Hall is a Actor and Director British born on 22 november 1930 at Bury St Edmunds (United-kingdom)

Peter Hall

Peter Hall
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Birth name Peter Reginald Frederick Hall
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 november 1930 at Bury St Edmunds (United-kingdom)
Death 11 september 2017 (at 86 years)
Awards Laurence Olivier Award, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall, CBE (born 22 November 1930) is an English theatre and film director. Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (1960–68) and directed the National Theatre (1973–88). He has also been prominent in defending public subsidy of the arts in Britain.

Biography

En 1955, Peter Hall a mis en scène la première production en anglais de En Attendant Godot par Samuel Beckett, au Arts Theatre de Londres. En devenant le directeur de ce théâtre, il met en scène une pièce de Jean Anouilh, La Valse des toréadors.

En 1960, à l'âge de 29 ans, Peter Hall a créé la Royal Shakespeare Company à Stratford-upon-Avon où il est resté jusqu'en 1968. Durant cette période, il a dirigé sa femme, l'actrice française Leslie Caron, dans une production d'Ondine (1961) à Stratford et à Londres (Aldwych Theatre). Il a été chef du Royal Opera House à Covent Garden à Londres pendant deux ans et a mis en scène Moses und Aron, La Flûte Enchantée, et Tristan et Isolde de Wagner.

Il a été directeur du National Theatre à Londres, de 1973 à 1988 - le premier chef dans le nouveau théâtre construit par l'architecte Denys Lasdun. Pendant des années, Hall été aussi directeur artistique du Festival de Glyndebourne où il a notamment mis en scène le Songe d'une nuit d'été et Albert Herring de Benjamin Britten, La Calisto de Cavalli, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Figaro. En 1983, il a présenté une nouvelle production de la Tétralogie de Wagner au Festival de Bayreuth, sous la baguette de Georg Solti.

Surtout metteur en scène de Shakespeare et de Mozart au théâtre et à l'opéra, Peter Hall a aussi fait des films et des feuilletons de télévision. Il a écrit deux volumes de mémoires ainsi qu'un livre sur Shakespeare.

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Filmography of Peter Hall (10 films)

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Never Talk to Strangers, 1h26
Directed by Peter Hall
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Antonio Banderas, Rebecca De Mornay, Dennis Miller, Len Cariou, Harry Dean Stanton, Eugene Lipinski
Rating52% 2.6011452.6011452.6011452.6011452.601145
Psychologist Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay) is a guarded, aloof criminal psychologist who interviews a client who is a rapist, and is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. It is later revealed that she was the subject of daily rapes as a child by her estranged father, who is now shown to be very ill. Sarah meets Tony Ramirez (Antonio Banderas) in a shopping mall, and she gives him her number. She begins a relationship with Tony, despite the creepy advances of her neighbor, Cliff (Dennis Miller), with whom she once had a one-night stand.
Jacob
Jacob (1994)
, 1h31
Directed by Peter Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sean Bean, Giancarlo Giannini, Joss Ackland, Juliet Aubrey
Rating65% 3.250913.250913.250913.250913.25091
Jacob defrauds his twin brother Esau (Sean Bean) and flees. In Haran he gets to know his cousin Rachel (Lara Flynn Boyle), and falls in love with her. Years of hard work later he marries Rachel and reconciles with his brother Esau.
Orpheus Descending, 1h57
Directed by Peter Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Kevin Anderson, Brad Sullivan, Anne Twomey, Michael Emerson, Miriam Margolyes
Rating65% 3.288583.288583.288583.288583.28858
Lady Torrance (Redgrave) is introduced as a disillusioned character, her Sicilian father was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and she's been trapped in a miserable marriage for twenty years. Her tyrannical and bigoted husband is struck down by cancer. Then Lady Torrance meets the orpheuse, a young man named Val Xavier (Kevin Anderson), an Elvis Presley-inspired drifter. A romantic entanglement ensues as Lady Torrance puts behind the misery of marriage behind her and finds passion and happiness with Val.
The Homecoming, 1h51
Directed by Peter Hall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant, Terence Rigby, Paul Rogers
Rating67% 3.3903153.3903153.3903153.3903153.390315
Teddy (Michael Jayston) brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) home to meet his estranged family.
Perfect Friday, 1h35
Directed by Peter Hall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner, T.P. McKenna, Joan Benham, Julian Orchard
Rating63% 3.1988253.1988253.1988253.1988253.198825
The story revolves around three people -- Lord Nicholas Dorset and his wife Britt, for whom luxury is a necessity, and their bank manager Mr. Graham. Over the years, Mr. Graham has devised a plan to rob his own bank. His clients' desperate financial straits make them ideal accomplices in his eyes, but to ensure their loyalty he makes love to Britt after sending her husband away, then bribes Nick with a retainer.
3 Into 2 Won't Go, 1h32
Directed by Peter Hall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Rogers, Lynn Farleigh
Rating58% 2.9034252.9034252.9034252.9034252.903425
Steve and Frances Howard are a middle-aged, married and childless couple who reside in a sparsely decorated home in Manchester, England. He is an executive in a store that sells appliances.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2h4
Directed by Peter Hall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Ian Holm, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Barbara Jefford, Diana Rigg, David Warner
Rating64% 3.2450653.2450653.2450653.2450653.245065
Plusieurs couples nouent et dénouent des liens amoureux, victimes en cela de malicieux êtres surnaturels qui vivent dans une forêt.
Work Is a 4-Letter Word, 1h33
Directed by Peter Hall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors David Warner, Cilla Black, Zia Mohyeddin, Elizabeth Spriggs, Alan Howard, Jan Holden
Rating54% 2.7238052.7238052.7238052.7238052.723805
Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose (Warner) would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms. However, his bedroom is too small and his fiancee Betty Dorrick (Black) wants him to settle down. Accordingly, Brose seeks a job in DICE's boiler-room, a suitable environment to grow his mushrooms.