Philip Saville
Directing
Born October 28, 1930 in London, UK
Philip Saville (sometimes credited as Philip Savile, born 28 October 1930, London) is a British actor who turned to television direction and screenwriting in the late 1950s. During the 1960s he directed several important television plays, such as Harold Pinter's A Night Out (1960) for ABC's Armchair Theatre anthology series, and the lost Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) for the BBC. The later production became famous as the first acting appearance of the American folk singer Bob Dylan, whom Saville had flown over to the UK specifically to take part in the play.
Filmography
Return of the Unknown
Discovering Hamlet
Pinter's Progress
The Gospel of John
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
The Biographer
My Uncle Silas
Little White Lies
Metroland
Deacon Brodie
The Buccaneers
Wall of Silence
Family Pictures
Angels
The Cloning of Joanna May
The Cloning of Joanna May
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Max and Helen
Fellow Traveller
Screen One
The Fruit Machine
First Born
First Born
Mandela
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Shadey
Screen Two
Those Glory Glory Days
Boys from the Blackstuff
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
Design for Living
Rotten
Count Dracula
Count Dracula
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Shuttlecock
Plays for Britain
Moss
Shades of Greene
Gangsters
Churchill's People
Playhouse
The Actual Woman
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Access to the Children
The Creditors
In the Beautiful Caribbean
O Fat White Woman
Secrets
The Fox Trot
The Rainbirds
The Long Distance Piano Player
Play for Today
The Best House in London
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Oedipus the King
ITV Playhouse
The Machine Stops
Exit 19
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Out of the Unknown
In Camera
The Wednesday Play
Hamlet at Elsinore
Living Image
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Afternoon of a Nymph
Night Conspirators
A Night Out
The Great Van Robbery
Chase
Three Crooked Men
Seppy
The Betrayal
Bartel
Armchair Theatre
Contraband Spain
Martin Scott
Bang! You're Dead
Ben Jones
The Mirror and Markheim
Markheim
The Straw Man
Link Hunter
Murder at 3am
Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King
A Piece of Cake
Dinner Guest
The Blind Goddess
Mainwaring's Junior
To the Public Danger
Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)
Penny and the Pownall Case
Slim, Police Car Driver