Harold Pinter
Writing
Born October 10, 1930 in Hackney, London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Teatro Estudio
Retrógrado
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Self (archive footage)
The Collection
The New World Order
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
Talk Show
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self (archive footage)
Sleuth
Man on T.V.
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp
Celebration
Le Gardien
Art, Truth and Politics
self
The Culture Show
Self
Under a False Name
The Caretaker
Victoria Station
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self
The Dwarfs
Catastrophe
The Director
The Tailor of Panama
Uncle Benny
Wit
Mr. Bearing
Mansfield Park
Sir Thomas Bertram
The Dumb Waiter
Mojo
Sam Ross
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
HARDtalk
Breaking the Code
John Smith
The Trial
Party Time
Old Times
Performance
The Comfort of Strangers
The Handmaid's Tale
The Heat of the Day
Reunion
Mountain Language
The Birthday Party
Nat Goldberg
Basements
Turtle Diary
Man in Bookshop
Theatre Night
Goldberg
One for the Road
The Dumb Waiter
Screen Two
A Kind of Alaska
Betrayal
Landscape
The Hothouse
Poets Against the Bomb
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Caretaker
The Rear Column
No Man's Land
Langrishe, Go Down
Barry Shannon
The South Bank Show
Self
BBC2 Play of the Week
Barry Shannon
Laurence Olivier Presents
The Last Tycoon
Rogue Male
Saul Abrahams
The Collection
Old Times
Arena
Butley
The Homecoming
Monologue
The Go-Between
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Steven Hench
Last to Go
The Birthday Party
The Basement
Stott
NBC Experiment in Television
Self / (voice)
A Night Out
Accident
Bell - TV Producer
A Slight Ache
The Quiller Memorandum
Modesty Blaise
Tea Party
In Camera
Garcin
The Wednesday Play
Garcin
The Pumpkin Eater
Theatre 625
Stott
The Caretaker
Man
The Servant
People in Restaurant: Society Man
The Lover
A Night Out
Seeley
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee