Berkoff, Steven

Berkoff, Steven

Born 3 Aug. 1937; s of Polly and Al Berks (formerly Berkovitch); m 1st (marr. diss.); 2nd, 2018, Clara Fischer
actor, director and writer
Education
Raine’s Foundation Grammar School, Stepney; Grocers’ Co. Sch., Hackney
Career
Plays acted, 1965–: Zoo Story; Arturo Ui; Dinner with Saddam; plays directed/acted/wrote, 1969–: Metamorphosis (also directed on Broadway, 1989, Japan, 1992); Macbeth (directed and acted); Agamemnon; The Trial; The Fall of the House of Usher; East; Kvetch (Evening Standard Comedy of the Year Award, 1991); season of 3 plays, NT; Hamlet (directed and acted); Decadence (filmed, 1993); Brighton Beach Scumbags; Greek; West; One Man; Shakespeare’s Villains (one-man show), Haymarket, 1998; Messiah, Old Vic, 2003; wrote and directed: Sink the Belgrano, Mermaid, 1986, Acapulco, 1992; Six Actors in Search of a Director, 2012; wrote and co-directed: Religion and Anarchy, Jermyn St Th., 2013; directed: Coriolanus, NY, 1988, Munich, 1991; Salomé, Edinburgh Festival, NT (and acted), 1989, Phoenix (and acted), 1990; The Trial, NT, 1991; Coriolanus, Mermaid (and acted), 1996; Massage, LA (and acted), 1997; East, Vaudeville, 1999; Messiah, 2000; The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, 2001; Sit and Shiver, New End, 2006; On the Waterfront, Nottingham Playhouse (and adapted), 2008, transf. Th. Royal, Haymarket, 2009; Oedipus, Liverpool Playhouse (and adapted), 2011; The Hairy Ape, Odyssey Th., LA, 2016; films acted: A Clockwork Orange, 1971; Barry Lyndon, The Passenger, 1975; McVicar, 1980; Outland, 1981; Octopussy, 1983; Beverly Hills Cop, 1984; Rambo, Underworld, Revolution, 1985; Under the Cherry Moon, Absolute Beginners, 1986; Prisoner of Rio, 1988; The Krays, 1990; Decadence, 1994; Fair Game, 1995; Another 9½ Weeks (Love in Paris), 1997; Legionnaire, 1998; The Big I Am, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Tourist, 2010; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2012; Tell Tale Heart (and wrote), 2017; Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains (and wrote), 2017. Hon. DLitt Brunel, 2010
Publications
East, 1977; Gross Intrusion (short stories), 1979; Decadence, 1982; Greek, 1982; West, 1985; Lunch, 1985; Harry’s Xmas, 1985; Kvetch, 1987; Acapulco, 1987; Sink the Belgrano, 1987; Massage, 1987; America, 1988; I Am Hamlet, 1989; A Prisoner in Rio, 1989; The Theatre of Steven Berkoff (photographic), 1992; Coriolanus in Deutschland, 1992; Meditations on Metamorphosis, 1995; Free Association (autobiog.), 1996; Graft: tales of an actor (short stories), 1998; Shopping in the Santa Monica Mall, Ritual in Blood, Messiah, Oedipus, 2000; The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, 2001; Tough Acts, 2003; Richard II in New York, 2007; My Life in Food, 2008; You Remind Me of Marilyn Monroe, 2009; Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent (memoir), 2010; Tales from an Actor’s Life, 2011; One-Act Plays, 2012; East-End Photographs, 2012; play adaptations: The Fall of the House of Usher, 1977; Agamemnon, 1977; The Trial, 1981; Metamorphosis, 1981; In the Penal Colony, 1988
Recreations
ping-pong, photography, travelling
Address
c/o Joanna Marston, 1 Clareville Grove Mews SW7 5AH
(020) 7370 1080
www.stevenberkoff.com