Harold Pinter
Writing
Born: October 10, 1930 · Hackney, London, England, UK
Died: December 24, 2008 (aged 78)
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Known for
Sleuth
2007
The Tailor of Panama
2001
The Servant
1963
Mansfield Park
1999
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
The Go-Between
1971
The Last Tycoon
1976
Wit
2001
The Comfort of Strangers
1990
Accident
1967
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
Photos (2)
Movies (22)
The Tailor of Panama
Uncle Benny
Sleuth
Man on T.V.
The Servant
People in Restaurant: Society Man
Wit
Mr. Bearing
Mansfield Park
Sir Thomas Bertram
Catastrophe
The Director
Accident
Bell - TV Producer
The Caretaker
Man
The Birthday Party
Nat Goldberg
Mojo
Sam Ross
Rogue Male
Saul Abrahams
Turtle Diary
Man in Bookshop
Poets Against the Bomb
1981
Langrishe, Go Down
Barry Shannon
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Steven Hench
Breaking the Code
John Smith
The Basement
Stott
One for the Road
Nicolas
Last to Go
1969
A Night Out
Seeley
In Camera
Garcin
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp
TV Shows (5)
Self / Appearances (9)
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
The South Bank Show
Self · 1 eps
The Culture Show
Self · 1 eps
NBC Experiment in Television
Self / (voice) · 1 eps
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Self (archive footage)
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self (archive footage)
Art, Truth and Politics
self
Upcoming (1)
Directing (6)
Writing (65)
Screen Two
Screenplay
Arena
Writer
Performance
Writer
Theatre 625
Writer
BBC2 Play of the Week
Writer
The Handmaid's Tale
Screenplay
The Comfort of Strangers
Screenplay
Sleuth
Screenplay
NBC Experiment in Television
Writer
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Screenplay
The Servant
Screenplay
Laurence Olivier Presents
Writer
Theatre Night
Theatre Play
The Caretaker
Author
The Last Tycoon
Screenplay
The Go-Between
Screenplay
The Trial
Screenplay
The Birthday Party
Screenplay
The Birthday Party
Theatre Play
The Collection
Writer
The Quiller Memorandum
Screenplay
Modesty Blaise
Co-Writer
Accident
Screenplay
Betrayal
Writer
Tea Party
Writer
The Pumpkin Eater
Screenplay
The Caretaker
Writer
Landscape
Writer
Basements
Writer
The Collection
Screenplay
The Caretaker
Writer
Talk Show
Theatre Play
The Birthday Party
Writer
The Dwarfs
Writer
No Man's Land
Writer
The Lover
Writer
One for the Road
Writer
Reunion
Screenplay
The Dumb Waiter
Writer
Turtle Diary
Screenplay
Old Times
Writer
Le Gardien
Author
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Writer
The Homecoming
Screenplay
The Homecoming
Theatre Play
Victoria Station
Writer
Langrishe, Go Down
Screenplay
The Heat of the Day
Writer
The New World Order
Writer
Celebration
Writer
The Basement
Writer
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
Theatre Play
The Dumb Waiter
Writer
Monologue
Writer
Old Times
Writer
A Slight Ache
Writer
Mountain Language
Writer
Retrógrado
Original Story
A Night Out
Writer
The Hothouse
Writer
Last to Go
Writer
A Night Out
Writer
Party Time
Screenplay
A Kind of Alaska
Writer
Art, Truth and Politics
Writer
