Person    | Male  Born 22/11/1930  Died 11/9/2017

Peter Hall

Categories: Cinema, Theatre

Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE was a theatre and film director who was born on 22 November 1930 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and was its first artistic director, 1960-8 and was the Director of the National Theatre, 1973–88.

The 1939 England and Wales Register shows him living with his parents at 121 Blinco Grove, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

His Wikipedia page gives details of his life and confirms that he died of pneumonia, aged 86 years, on 11 September 2017 at University College Hospital, 235 Euston Road, London NW1 2BU.

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