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Mr. Hall in discussion with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1965.
Michael Stroud/Hulton Archive; thumbnail (with daughter Rebecca Hall) Nobby Clark, 2003
Peter Hall
Died on September 11, 2017 at age 86
Mr. Hall created the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of 29, oversaw the National Theater’s move to the south bank of the Thames and exerted a commanding influence on theater in the English-speaking world for well over 50 years.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.