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Born August 2, 1925 • Derby • England
Died March 23, 1990 (aged 64) • London • England
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Jonathan Miller
British actor, director, producer, and medical doctor
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Peter Hall
English theatrical manager and director
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Sir Tyrone Guthrie
British director
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
American director, playwright, and costume designer
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt
Austrian director
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Robert Lepage
Canadian writer, director, designer, and actor
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
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Robert Wilson
American playwright, director, and producer
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Sir William Davenant
English writer
Luchino Visconti gestures with his right hand raised to his temple while rehearsing the opera Macbeth, with dramatic lighting highlighting his face.
Luchino Visconti
Italian director
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Emil František Burian
Czech author and composer
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Emanuel Schikaneder
Bavarian playwright
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Kola Ogunmola
Nigerian dramatist
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Karel Reisz
Czechoslovak-born British director
Schlesinger, John
John Schlesinger
English film director
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
British-Irish playwright and filmmaker
Portrait of Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins looking directly at the camera, wearing a dark jacket with a short beard and closely cropped hair.
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh actor
Hamlet (1948)
Laurence Olivier
British actor, director, writer, and producer
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall, wearing a black cap and dark fur-trimmed cloak, standing against a plain background.
Mark Rylance
British actor and director
Sam Mendes stands smiling in a dark pinstripe suit and white shirt, wearing a red poppy pin, with hands in his pockets in front of a Skyfall backdrop.
Sam Mendes
English director