Cast & creator
Philip Saville
Best known for The Wednesday Play, The Wednesday Play, Play for Today
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. Other notable programmes on which Saville worked included Out of the Unknown (1965) and the Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) for which Saville received a BAFTA to add to his earlier BAFTA for Hamlet. In film Saville directed The Fruit Machine (1988, released as Wonderland in the USA), Metroland (1997) and The Gospel of John (2003). Saville has been called one of the UK's top 100 directors of all time. He is active in film and television as of 2006, and has a masterclass studio in London specializing in dramatic improvisation. Philip Saville has recently completed a special documentary on Harold Pinter Pinter's Progress for Sundance international television channels and UK's Sky Arts. Saville is currently developing further arts programming with Sundance and British TV company 3DD Productions including Discovering Hamlet now in production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
79
film credits
36
television credits
17
1948–2014 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (115)
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The Wednesday Play
Adaptation
1964The Wednesday Play
Director
1964
Play for Today
Director
1970
Screen Two
Director
1985
BBC Play of the Month
Director
1965
ITV Playhouse
Director
1967
Playhouse
Director
1974Playhouse
Teleplay
1974
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Director
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Director
1969
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Director
1973
Screen One
Director
1989
Churchill's People
Director
1974
Out of the Unknown
Director
1965Armchair Mystery Theatre
Director
1960Second City Firsts
Director
1973
The Buccaneers
Director
1995The Buccaneers
Producer
1995
Boys from the Blackstuff
Director
1982
Count Dracula
Director
1977
Plays for Britain
Director
1976
Armchair Theatre
Director
1956Armchair Theatre
Writer
1956
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Director
1986
The Gospel of John
Director
2003Private Affairs
Director
1975
First Born
Director
1988
Shades of Greene
Director
1975
My Uncle Silas
Director
2001
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Director
2002Six
Director
1964Six
Writer
1964The Velvet Glove
Director
1977
Family Pictures
Director
1993Five More
Director
1966Five More
Writer
1966
The Cloning of Joanna May
Director
1992
Night Conspirators
Director
1962
The Best House in London
Director
1969
Count Dracula
Director
1977
Mandela
Director
1987
The Fruit Machine
Director
1988
Afternoon of a Nymph
Director
1962
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Director
1990
Oedipus the King
Screenplay
1968Oedipus the King
Director
1968
Fellow Traveller
Director
1989
A Piece of Cake
Dinner Guest
1948
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Director
1972
The Biographer
Director
2002
Those Glory Glory Days
Director
1983
Metroland
Director
1998
Hamlet at Elsinore
Director
1964
Secrets
Director
1971Secrets
Story
1971
The Great Van Robbery
Chase
1959
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Director
1963The Madhouse on Castle Street
Producer
1963
Penny and the Pownall Case
Slim, Police Car Driver
1948
The Long Distance Piano Player
Director
1970
To the Public Danger
Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)
1948
Max and Helen
Director
1990
Discovering Hamlet
Director
2011
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
Director
1966
The Blind Goddess
Mainwaring's Junior
1948
O Fat White Woman
Director
1971
Return of the Unknown
2014
Bang! You're Dead
Ben Jones
1954
Three Crooked Men
Seppy
1958
Gangsters
Director
1975
Rotten
Director
1978
Deacon Brodie
Director
1997Sam's Song
Director
1979
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Director
1976
The Mirror and Markheim
Markheim
1954
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
1981The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Director
1981The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Writer
1981
Contraband Spain
Martin Scott
1955
Little White Lies
Director
1998
Shuttlecock
Director
1976Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Director
1956Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Producer
1956
Access to the Children
Director
1973
First Born
Director
1988The Night of the Full Moon
Dale Merritt
1954
The Fox Trot
Director
1971
Pinter's Progress
Director
2009
Angels
Director
1992A Dream of Living
Director
1975
Wall of Silence
Director
1993
In Camera
Director
1964In Camera
Writer
1964
A Night Out
Director
1960On the Run
Driscoll
1958An Honourable Murder
Mark Anthony
1960
The Machine Stops
Director
1966
The Betrayal
Bartel
1957Prisoner and Escort
Director
1964
Design for Living
Director
1979
The Straw Man
Link Hunter
1953
The Creditors
Writer
1972The Creditors
Director
1972
Exit 19
Director
1966Exit 19
Writer
1966
The Rainbirds
Director
1971Cork and Bottle
Director
1977
Moss
Director
1975The Paradise Suite
Director
1963
Murder at 3am
Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King
1953
The Actual Woman
Director
1974
Shadey
Director
1985
Living Image
Director
1963The Logic Game
Director
1965The Logic Game
Writer
1965