John Berger

Writer

Born: November 5, 1926
Died: January 2, 2017 (age 90)
From: Stoke Newington, London, England

John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.

Filmography (23)

8 Poems of Emigration (2020)
Poet / Narrator (voice)
The Economy of the Dead
The Economy of the Dead (2017)
Speaker (voice)
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2017)
Self
The New Man
The New Man (2016)
Self
John Berger or The Art of Looking (2016)
Self - Subject
Taşkafa, Stories of the Street (2013)
Narrator
12.Août.2002 (2012)
Self (Voice)
Walter, retour en résistance (2009)
Himself
Letter from Gaza (2008)
Arrows of Time
Arrows of Time (2007)
Art, Poetry and Particle Physics (2004)
The Spectre of Hope (2002)
Self
Visioni di case che crollano (2002)
Narrator
Walk Me Home (1993)
The Embrace: An Essay by John Berger
The Embrace: An Essay by John Berger (1992)
Narrator
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult (1989)
Self
Play Me Something (1989)
Secretary
About Time (1985)
John Berger
Parting Shots from Animals (1980)
Self (narrator)
Pig Earth (1979)
Self
Germinal
Germinal (1973)
Presenter
Right to Work March (1972)
A City at Chandigarh (1966)
Narrator