Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

writer, director, additional crew

Samuel Beckett was born on Apr 13, 1906 in UK [now Republic of Ireland]. Samuel Beckett's big-screen debut came with Rockaby directed by Chris Hegedus in 1982. Samuel Beckett is known for Endgame directed by Conor McPherson, Michael Gambon stars as Hamm and David Thewlis as Clov. Samuel Beckett has got 3 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Samuel Beckett achieved is American Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Samuel Beckett plays is The Year of Living Locked Up which will be released on Jul 11, 2020.

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.

  • Birthday

    Apr 13, 1906
  • Place of Birth

    Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]

Known For

Awards

3 wins & 1 nominations

American Film Festival
1988
Documentary
Winner - Blue Ribbon Award
Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1988)
SACD Awards
1984
Winner - Grand Prize
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