Samuel Beckett

WriterDirectorAdditional Crew

Born: April 13, 1906
Died: December 22, 1989
Awards: 3 wins, 4 nominations

Samuel Beckett is an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his life, he wrote in both French and English. Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragi-comic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black…

Biography

Samuel Beckett is an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.

A resident of Paris for most of his life, he wrote in both French and English.

Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragi-comic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd".

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Director

Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett(1992)

Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett(1990)

Was wo(1986)

Quadrat I+II(1981)

He Joe(1979)

Writer

Het Was Niet Koud, Het Sneeuwde Niet(2024)

Dance First(2023)

Fin de partie(2023)

Play(2022)

Waiting for Godot(2021)

Additional Crew

Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett(1988)

The Lively Arts(1969)

Ghost Trio(1977)

...but the clouds...(1977)

Zodiac(1966)

Thanks

Here Comes Godot(2014)

My Old Lady(2014)

All Things Shining(2012)

Arbitrarody(2009)

Rumbo a peor(2009)

Self

Samuel Beckett(1969)as Self

Archive Footage

Résistances(2023)as Self

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan(2020)as Self

NOTFILM(2015)as Self

Shattered(2005)as Self

Waiting for Beckett(1993)as Self

Known for

Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett1990 · Writer Comédie1966 · Writer Film1965 · Writer Fin de Partie2005 · Writer

Contribute to this page · Edit page

Photos 1