Samuel Beckett
Known for: Writing
Born: April 13, 1906
Died: December 22, 1989
Place of birth: Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
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."
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Filmography
89 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
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How It Is
2026
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GIGI !
2026
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Waiting for Godot
2025
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Waiting for Godot
2025
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Endgame
2023
3.0
Waiting for Godot
2021
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Happy Days
2021
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Come and Go
2020
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Waiting for Godot
2020
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Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
10.0
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
2019
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Barney's Wall
2019
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En attendant Godot
2019
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Beckett by Brook
2018
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Waiting for Godot
2018
5.0
Notfilm
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The Lost One
2014
7.3
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
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What Where
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Emancipation in the Brain
2012
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Wydalony
2011
10.0
Fin de partie
2008
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Krapp's Last Tape
2007
10.0
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
9.0
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002
9.0
Ohio Impromptu
2002
6.4
Catastrophe
20016.2
Act Without Words I
20014.5
Act Without Words II
20017.3
A Piece of Monologue
2001
7.1
Play
2001
7.1
Waiting for Godot
2001
5.6
Breath
2001
7.3
Endgame
2000
7.4
Krapp's Last Tape
2000
6.2
What Where
2000
7.5
Happy Days
20006.3
Footfalls
20005.8
Not I
2000
7.0
Rough for Theatre I
2000
5.8
Rough for Theatre II
20006.0
Come and Go
2000
4.0
That Time
2000
5.1
Rockaby
2000
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Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
1998
7.5
NEKO-MIMI
1994
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Be Again
1994
9.0
Waiting for Beckett
1993
4.7
En attendant Godot
1989
9.0
Endgame
1989
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Godot in San Quentin
1988
8.0
Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1988
10.0
Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
1988
6.9
My Case
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Was Wo
1986
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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
1984
7.5
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
1983
10.0
Night and Dreams
1983
7.0
Quad I+II
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Rockaby
1981
8.0
Happy Days
1980
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Happy Days
1979
6.0
He Joe
1979
8.0
Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)
1979
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Ghost Trio
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... nur noch Gewölk ...
1977
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Ghost Trio
1977
9.0
...but the clouds...
197710.0
Warten auf Godot
19769.5
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
1976
6.6
Not I
1973
10.0
Krapp's Last Tape
1972
7.5
Waiting for Godot
1971
7.0
Atto senza parole
1969
7.0
Beckett in Berlin
1969
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Samuel Beckett - Mute Interview
1969
7.0
If I Had Four Dromedaries
1966
10.0
Eh, Joe?
1966
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He Joe
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Atto senza parole secondo
1966
8.7
Comédie
1966
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
7.0
Film
1965
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Beginning to End
1965
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Glade Dage
19648.0
Festival
1963
7.0
Tous ceux qui tombent
1963
6.0
Waiting for Godot
1961
8.0
Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
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Waiting for Godot
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Dada Knows Best
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The Lost Ones
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