Simon Brook (director)

{{Short description|British film director}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Simon Brook

|image =

|caption =

|birth_name =

|birth_date =

|birth_place =

|death_date =

|death_place =

|death_cause =

|occupation = Film director

|nationality = British

|parents = Peter Brook
Natasha Parry

|relatives = Gordon Parry (grandfather)
Alexis Brook (uncle)
Irina Brook (sister)

|spouse =

|children =

}}

Simon Brook is a British film director, mostly of documentaries.

Simon Brook is the son of fellow director Peter Brook and the actress Natasha Parry.{{cite news|last1=Scott|first1=A. O.|title=Do Not Look Down in This Class: 'Peter Brook: The Tightrope' Follows the Theater Director|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/movies/peter-brook-the-tightrope-follows-the-theater-director.html?_r=0|accessdate=23 July 2015|work=New York Times|date=30 January 2014}} His sister is the actress and writer Irina Brook.

Selected filmography (as director)

  • The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988) - as assistant director
  • Minus One (1991)
  • Alice (short film starring Gabrielle Lazure, 1995)
  • L'amazone (documentary, 1998)
  • Karos d'Éthiopie, les amoureux du fleuve (television documentary, 2001)
  • Brook by Brook (television documentary, 2002)
  • Cleopatra's Lost City (television documentary, 2003)
  • Jungle Magic (documentary, 2005)
  • La légende vraie de la tour Eiffel (documentary fiction, 2005)
  • Generation 68 (2008)
  • Annie Nightingale: Bird on the Wireless (2011)
  • Peter Brook: The Tightrope (2012){{cite web |last=Nesselson |first=Lisa |title=The Tightrope: A Theatrical Adventure With Peter Brook |website=Screen Daily |date=5 September 2012 |url= https://www.screendaily.com/the-tightrope-a-theatrical-adventure-with-peter-brook/5046027.article |accessdate=3 July 2022}}
  • Indian Summer (2013)
  • Hell Is Empty: All The Devils Are Here (2016)
  • A Different American Dream (documentary, 2016)

References

{{Reflist}}