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London, England. Education. University of London. Occupation. film producer. Years active. 1992 - present. Paul Brooks is a British-born film producer . Brooks has a Humanities degree in English / Philosophy / Psychology and Sociology from the University of London.
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In early August, SNCC staff members James Forman and Paul Brooks, with the support of Ella Baker, began planning a Freedom Ride in solidarity with Robert F. Williams. Williams was an extremely militant and controversial NAACP chapter president for Monroe, North Carolina. After making the public statement that he would "meet violence with ...
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Brook was born on 21 March 1925 in the Bedford Park area of Chiswick, the second son of Simon Brook and his wife Ida (Judelson), both Lithuanian Jewish immigrants from Latvia. The family home was at 27 Fairfax Road, Turnham Green. His elder brother Alexis became a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. His first cousin was Valentin Pluchek, chief direct...
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Brook directed Marlowe's Dr Faustus, his first production, in 1943 at the Torch Theatre in London, followed at the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945 with a revival of Cocteau's The Infernal Machine. He was engaged from 1945 as stage director at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (BRT). Hired by BRT direct Barry Jacksonwhen he was just twenty years old, Jackson described Brook as "the youngest earthquake I've known". In 1946, Brook went to Stratford-upon-Avon to direct Love's Labour's Lost for the Str...
International Centre for Theatre Research
In 1971, with Micheline Rozan, Brook founded the International Centre for Theatre Research, a multinational company of actors, dancers, musicians and others, which travelled widely in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s. It has been based in Paris at the Bouffes du Nord theatre since 1974. The troupe played at immigrant hostels, in villages and in refugee camps, sometimes for people who had never been exposed to theatre. In 2008 he resigned as its artistic director, beginning a thre...
In 1951, Brook married actress Natasha Parry. They had two children: Irina, an actress and director, and Simon, a director. Parry died of a stroke in July 2015, aged 84. Brook died in Paris on 2 July 2022, aged 97.
Sources for Brook's productions are held by the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Princess of Asturias Foundation,and others.
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Marat/Sade, 1966Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1971Brigadier Prize, 1975, for Timon of AthensGrand Prix Dominique, 1981Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame, 1983Honorary DLitt, University of Birmingham, 1990Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1991Peter Brook biography and filmography at the BFI's ScreenonlinePeter Brook at IMDbAs Editor-in-Chief at Houghton-Mifflin for twenty-five years, Paul Brooks was editor for both Rachel Carson and Roger Tory Peterson. As an environmental activist, he was a prolific writer and editor. For his work, he was awarded the John Burroughs Medal, the Sierra Club’s John Muir Medal, The Thoreau Society Medal, and the National Audubon ...
Melvin James Brooks ( né Kaminsky; [1] born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, Brooks is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. [2] .
