Samuel Beckett
Biography
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Personal Details
Movies (49)
Waiting for Godot
Writer (Writing)
2025
Endgame
Writer (Writing)
2023
Waiting for Godot
Theatre Play (Writing)
2021
Happy Days
Writer (Writing)
2021
Waiting for Godot
Writer (Writing)
2020
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
Writer (Writing)
2020
Barney's Wall
as Self (archive footage)
2019
En attendant Godot
Theatre Play (Writing)
2019
Beckett by Brook
Writer (Writing)
2018
Waiting for Godot
Theatre Play (Writing)
2018
Notfilm
as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Lost One
Short Story (Writing)
2014
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
Writer (Writing)
2013
What Where
Writer (Writing)
2013
Emancipation in the Brain
Novel (Writing)
2012
Fin de partie
Theatre Play (Writing)
2008
Krapp's Last Tape
Theatre Play (Writing)
2007
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Writer (Writing)
2003
Ohio Impromptu
Writer (Writing)
2002
Catastrophe
Writer (Writing)
2001
A Piece of Monologue
Writer (Writing)
2001
Act Without Words I
Writer (Writing)
2001
Act Without Words II
Writer (Writing)
2001
Play
Theatre Play (Writing)
2001
Waiting for Godot
Writer (Writing)
2001
Breath
Writer (Writing)
2001
Endgame
Writer (Writing)
2000
What Where
Writer (Writing)
2000
Krapp's Last Tape
Writer (Writing)
2000
Happy Days
Theatre Play (Writing)
2000
Footfalls
Writer (Writing)
2000
Not I
Writer (Writing)
2000
Rough for Theatre I
Writer (Writing)
2000
Rough for Theatre II
Writer (Writing)
2000
Rockaby
Writer (Writing)
2000
That Time
Writer (Writing)
2000
Come and Go
Writer (Writing)
2000
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Writer (Writing)
1998
NEKO-MIMI
Dialogue (Writing)
1994
Be Again
Writer (Writing)
1994
Waiting for Beckett
as Self
1993
En attendant Godot
Theatre Play (Writing)
1989
Endgame
Theatre Play (Writing)
1989
Godot in San Quentin
Writer (Writing)
1988
Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Director (Directing)
1988
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
1987
My Case
Short Story (Writing)
1986
Was Wo
Director (Directing)
1986
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
as Self (archive footage)
1983
