Peter Hall(1930-2017)

Director
Additional Crew
Actor

Peter Hall in Never Talk to Strangers (1995)

Sir Peter Hall directed his first play while he was still a student. He soon achieved prominence as a stage director. He started his occasional film work in 1968 with Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968). He was the Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon from 1960 - 1968. Took over direction of the National Theatre from Lord Laurence Olivier in 1973, shortly after leaving the RSC.

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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- 4 wins & 4 nominations total

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Diana Rigg, David Warner, and Peter Hall at an event for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)

Known for:

Screen One

6.6

TV Series

Director

Three Into Two Won't Go

5.9

Director

1969

The Chamomile Lawn

7.5

TV Series

Director

Aeschylus' Oresteia (Tony Harrison Adaptation), the National Theatre

9.1

Director

1983

Credits

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Director

The Final Passage
- Director
- TV Movie
- 1996
Never Talk to Strangers
- Director
- 1995
Jacob
- Director
- TV Movie
- 1994
Salome
- Director (stage)
- TV Movie
- 1992
The Chamomile Lawn
- Director
- TV Series
- 1992
Orpheus Descending
- Director
- TV Movie
- 1990
Screen One
- Director
- TV Series
- 1989
La traviata
- Director
- TV Movie
- 1987
Albert Herring
- Director
- TV Movie
- 1985
L'incoronazione di Poppea
- Director
- TV Movie
- 1984
Great Performances
- Director
- TV Series
- 1984
All the World's a Stage
- director: scenes of 'The Masque' from 'The Tempest' being rehearsed
- TV Mini Series
- 1984
Aeschylus' Oresteia (Tony Harrison Adaptation), the National Theatre
- Director
- 1983
No Man's Land
- stage director
- TV Movie
- 1978
Akenfield
- Director
- 1974

Additional Crew

Otello
- directed for stage: Original production (as Sir Peter Hall)
- 2012
Simon Boccanegra
- directed for stage
- TV Movie
- 1998
Salome
- director: opera production (as Sir Peter Hall)
- TV Movie
- 1992
La traviata
- stage director
- TV Movie
- 1987
Live from the Metropolitan Opera
- production by: original (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 1987
Carmen
- stage director
- TV Movie
- 1985
Albert Herring
- directed for the stage by
- TV Movie
- 1985
L'incoronazione di Poppea
- opera director
- TV Movie
- 1984
Great Performances
- opera director
- TV Series
- 1984
Orfeo ed Euridice
- directed for stage
- TV Movie
- 1982
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- opera director
- TV Movie
- 1981
Beethoven's Fidelio
- director: opera production
- TV Movie
- 1980
Cosi fan tutte
- directed for stage
- TV Movie
- 1978
Don Giovanni
- stage: produced by
- TV Movie
- 1978
The Marriage of Figaro
- production by
- TV Movie
- 1974

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Personal details

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Official site
- Theatre (hommage)
Alternative names
- Sir Peter Hall C.B.E.
Born
- November 22, 1930
- Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
Died
- September 11, 2017
- University College Hospital, London, England, UK(pneumonia)
Spouses
Children
- Rebecca Hall
Other works
Directed "Bacchai", a play by Euripides, translated by Colin Teevan (Royal National Theatre/Olivier, London, England, UK).
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Trivia
Father of actress Rebecca Hall with Maria Ewing; Christopher Hall and Jennifer Caron Hall with Leslie Caron; Lucy Hall and Edward Hall with Jacqueline Taylor; Emma Hall with Nicola Frei.

Quotes
[in 2008] Actors now think that if they raise their voice, they are being "unrealistic". I tell them, "What you do is unreal. You're wearing someone else's clothes and speaking someone else's words".