Film

Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

19841h 18mNRDocumentary

Age rating: NR
Director: Seán O'Mórdha
Year: 1984

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.

Top cast

Tony Doyle

Self - Narrator (Voice)

David Warrilow

Self - Text Reader (Voice)

Samuel Beckett

Self - (Archive)

Billie Whitelaw

Self

Directed by

Seán O'Mórdha

Written by

Richard Ellmann