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Steven Berkoff (born August 3, 1937) is an actor, writer and director. He was born in Stepney, in the East End of London, and is descended from a Russian Jewish family. He was educated at Hackney Downs School, alumni of which also include playwright Harold Pinter and actor Michael Caine. August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ...
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
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Harold Pinter Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born October 10, 1930) is a British playwright and theatre director. ...
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As a screen actor, he is best known for villainous roles such as the corrupt art dealer Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop, a gangster in The Krays, the father to the rival grangsters of the Krays, the Richardsons, in (Charlie), the sadistic Soviet officer Col. Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II and even Adolf Hitler in War and Remembrance. He appeared in the James Bond film Octopussy as General Orlov, and in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Hagath in the episode Business as Usual and in the Miniseries Children of Dune as Stilgar. An early role was in an episode of The Avengers. He was also a police officer in A Clockwork Orange, a gangster called Mr Wiltshire in episode 8 of BBC 1's "Hotel Babylon" series and a lawyer called Freddie Eccles in an episode of ITV's Miss Marple entitled By the Pricking of My Thumbs. A very early repeating role was as a Moonbase Interceptor pilot in the Gerry Anderson cult hit series UFO, while a more recent bit-part saw him as a criminal-turned-C-list-celebrity called Ray Cook in episode 6, series 3 of the light-hearted BBC police drama New Tricks. Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ...
The Krays is a 1990 crime film based on the lives of the East End gangsters the Kray twins. ...
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Berkoff is also a respected and prominent stage writer, actor and director. His work includes East], West and adaptations of Kafka's The Trial and The Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka approximately 1917 Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 in Prague - June 3, 1924 in Vienna) was one of the major German language writers of the 20th century most of whose work was published posthumously. ...
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The Metamorphosis - First edition 1915 Illustration: Ottomar Starke The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle. ...
He trained in mime and physical theatre alongside Jacques Le Coq in Paris and also at Webber Douglas in London. He is renowned for his unique style of heightened physical theatre which has been coined total theatre.
His most prominent influences are Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud and of course Jacques Le Coq. Berkoff is hailed as the most prolific leader of alternative theatre across the globe. Jerzy Grotowski (August 11, 1933 - January 14, 1999) was a Polish theatre director and a leading figure of theatrical avant garde of the 20th century. ...
He is currently patron at the Nightingale Theatre, home of the Trestle Theatre company, in Brighton Brighton is a town on the south coast of England, which together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton & Hove. ...
Further reading
Robert Cross, Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance (Manchester University Press, 2004 ur mama heeheee hee bicth
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