What is Peter Hall (director)?
{{Infobox person | name = Sir Peter Hall | image = | image_size = 200px | caption = Detail from a portrait of Sir Peter Hall by his daughter [[Jennifer Caron Hall]]. | birth_name = {{nowrap|Peter Reginald Frederick Hall}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|11|22|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[West Suffolk]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|9|11|1930|11|22|df=y}} | death_place = [[London]], England | occupation = Director, actor, playwright | years_active = 1953–2011 | spouse = * [[Leslie Caron]]<br>(1956–1965; divorced) * Jacqueline Taylor<br>(1965–1981; divorced) * [[Maria Ewing]]<br>(1982–1990; divorced) * Nicola (Nicki) Frei<br>(1990–2017; his death) | children = * [[Christopher Hall (producer)|Christopher Hall]] (b. 1957) * [[Jennifer Caron Hall]] (b. 1958) * [[Edward Hall (director)|Edward Hall]] (b. 1966) * Lucy Hall (b. 1969) * [[Rebecca Hall]] (b. 1982) * Emma Hall (b. 1992) }} '''Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (22 November 1930 &ndash; 11 September 2017) was a British director, playwright and actor. ==Career== In 1955 he introduced London audiences to the work of [[Samuel Beckett]] with the UK premiere of ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''. Hall founded the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] (1960–68) and went on to build an international reputation in theatre, opera, movie and television. He was Director of the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] (1973–88) and Artistic Director of [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera]] (1984-1990). He formed The Peter Hall Company (1998-2011) and became founding director of [[The Rose (theatre)|The Rose]] Theatre, Kingston in 2003. Throughout his career, he has been a vociferous champion of public funding for the arts.<ref>{{cite news |author=Horatia Harrod |title=Interview: Sir Peter Hall |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8673017/Interview-Sir-Peter-Hall.html |work= The Telegraph |date= 30 July 2011 }}</ref> ==Death== On the morning of 11 September 2017, Hall died at [[University College Hosp