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name: "Peter Hall"
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imdb_id: "nm0355991"
tmdb_id: 27339
wikidata_id: "Q769414"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "22 November 1930"
died: "11 September 2017"
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average_over: 1
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# Peter Hall

## Identity

Peter Hall

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-hall-27339
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-hall-27339
- **IMDb ID:** nm0355991
- **TMDB ID:** 27339
- **Wikidata ID:** Q769414
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hall_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q769414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27339

Director. Born 22 November 1930 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Died 11 September 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 22 November 1930, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England
- **Died:** 11 September 2017
- **Active:** 1989–1992
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hall_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q769414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27339

## Biography

Sir Peter Hall was an English theatre, opera and film director. He directed the 1989 television film *She's Been Away*, written by Stephen Poliakoff and starring Peggy Ashcroft and Geraldine James.

Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and served as its director from 1960 to 1968. He was director of the National Theatre from 1973 to 1988 and artistic director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera from 1984 to 1990. His other screen credits include the films *Akenfield* (1974) and *Never Talk to Strangers* (1995), and the television productions *Jacob* (1994) and *The Camomile Lawn* (1992).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *She's Been Away* (1989), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/shes-been-away.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Seek* (2020), Producer
- *Spin by David Shrigley* (2005), Director
- *Rossini: La cenerentola* (2005), Stage Director
- *The Shakespeare Sessions* (2003), Actor
- *The Final Passage* (1996), Director
- *Never Talk to Strangers* (1995), Director
- *Jacob* (1994), Director
- *Salomé* (1992), Director
- *The Camomile Lawn* (1992), series, Director
- *Orpheus Descending* (1990), Director, Screenplay
- *She's Been Away* (1989), Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/shes-been-away.md)
- *La Traviata* (1987), Director
- *Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder* (1987), series, Cinematography
- *Albert Herring* (1985), Director
- *Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera* (1985), Director
- *Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea* (1984), Director
- *The Oresteia* (1983), Director
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1981), Director
- *Fidelio* (1980), Co-Director
- *Beethoven's Fidelio* (1980), Co-Director
- *Don Giovanni* (1977), Director
- *British Reggae* (1976), as Host
- *Mother Ireland* (1976), Actor
- *The Last Word* (1975), as Leo
- *Akenfield* (1974), Director, Producer
- *When Mother Went on Strike* (1974), as Dr. Harry Kemper
- *The Homecoming* (1973), Director
- *The Pedestrian* (1973), as Rudolf Hartmann
- *The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland* (1973), Stage Director
- *Perfect Friday* (1970), Director
- *3 Into 2 Won't Go* (1969), Director
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1968), Director
- *Work Is a 4-Letter Word* (1968), Director
- *The Wars of the Roses* (1965), Director
- *The Wars of the Roses* (1965), series, Stage Director, Director
- *Salome - 1992*, Stage Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 7 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1996: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1992: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1990: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1981: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (won)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1980: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1979: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1972: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1967: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (won)
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1965: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Tony Award for Best Director 1958: Tony Award for Best Director (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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