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

Peter Hall

Categories: Cinema, Theatre

Peter Hall

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 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 , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

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

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