Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter CH CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing national service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel, born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady Antonia Fraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1957. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. His early works were described by critics as "comedy of menace". Later plays such as No Man's Land (1975) and Betrayal (1978) became known as "memory plays". He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film. He also undertook a number of roles in works by other writers. He directed nearly 50 productions for stage, theatre and screen. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2001, Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tape, for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006. He died from liver cancer on 24 December 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harold Pinter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Retrógrado
2024
Original Story
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023
Self (archive footage)
The New World Order
2019
Writer
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
2016
Theatre Play
Talk Show
2011
Theatre Play
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
Writer
Sleuth
2007
Screenplay
Celebration
2007
Writer
Le gardien
2007
Author
Krapp's Last Tape
2007
Krapp
Art, Truth and Politics
2005
Writer
Under a False Name
2004
Thanks
Victoria Station
2003
Writer
The Dwarfs
2002
Writer
The Tailor of Panama
2001
Uncle Benny
Catastrophe
2001
The Director
Wit
2001
Mr. Bearing
The Dumb Waiter
1999
Writer
Mansfield Park
1999
Sir Thomas Bertram
Mojo
1997
Sam Ross
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
Self
Breaking the Code
1996
John Smith
The Trial
1993
Screenplay
Party Time
1992
Director
Old Times
1991
Writer
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
Screenplay
The Comfort of Strangers
1990
Screenplay
Reunion
1989
Screenplay
The Heat of the Day
1989
Writer
Mountain Language
1988
Writer
Basements
1987
Writer
Turtle Diary
1985
Screenplay
A Kind of Alaska
1984
Writer
Betrayal
1983
Writer
The Hothouse
1982
Writer
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
Screenplay
Poets Against the Bomb
1981
The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
Self - Interviewee
The Rear Column
1980
Director
No Man's Land
1978
Writer
Langrishe, Go Down
1978
Screenplay
The Last Tycoon
1976
Screenplay
Rogue Male
1976
Saul Abrahams
Butley
1974
Director
The Homecoming
1973
Screenplay
Monologue
1973
Writer
The Go-Between
1971
Screenplay
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970
Steven Hench
The Birthday Party
1968
Screenplay
Accident
1967
Screenplay
A Slight Ache
1967
Writer
The Basement
1967
Writer
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
Screenplay
Modesty Blaise
1966
Co-Writer
Tea Party
1965
Writer
The Pumpkin Eater
1964
Screenplay
The Caretaker
1964
Writer
In Camera
1964
Garcin
The Lover
1963
Writer
The Servant
1963
Screenplay
A Night Out
1960
Writer