Cast & creator
Harold Pinter
Best known for The South Bank Show, The South Bank Show, Arena
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
Also known as: David Baron, Гарольд Пинтер
105
film credits
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1956–2024 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (127)
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The South Bank Show
Self
1978The South Bank Show
1978
Arena
Writer
1975
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
The Wednesday Play
Garcin
1964
Screen Two
Screenplay
1985
Theatre 625
Stott
1964Theatre 625
Writer
1964
Performance
Writer
1991Performance
Director
1991
HARDtalk
1997
The Culture Show
Self
2004
BBC2 Play of the Week
Barry Shannon
1977BBC2 Play of the Week
Writer
1977
The Tailor of Panama
Uncle Benny
2001
Theatre Night
Goldberg
1985Theatre Night
Theatre Play
1985
NBC Experiment in Television
Self / (voice)
1967NBC Experiment in Television
Writer
1967
The Handmaid's Tale
Screenplay
1990
Laurence Olivier Presents
Writer
1976
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Screenplay
1981
The Servant
People in Restaurant: Society Man
1963The Servant
Screenplay
1963
Mansfield Park
Sir Thomas Bertram
1999
The Last Tycoon
Screenplay
1976
The Comfort of Strangers
Screenplay
1990
Wit
Mr. Bearing
2001
The Pumpkin Eater
Screenplay
1964
Sleuth
Man on T.V.
2007Sleuth
Screenplay
2007
The Go-Between
Screenplay
1971Do You Remember?
Writer
1978
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self
2003
Modesty Blaise
Co-Writer
1966
The Quiller Memorandum
Screenplay
1966
The Caretaker
Author
2004
Teatro Estudio
Writer
1976
The Trial
Screenplay
1993
Accident
Bell - TV Producer
1967Accident
Screenplay
1967
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self (archive footage)
2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Writer
2010
The Collection
Screenplay
1976
Tea Party
Writer
1965
The Dwarfs
Writer
2002
Catastrophe
The Director
2001
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Self (archive footage)
2023
The Lover
Writer
1963
Landscape
Writer
1983
Basements
Writer
1987
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Steven Hench
1970Landscape
Director
1995Landscape
Writer
1995
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
1997
Under a False Name
Thanks
2004
No Man's Land
Writer
1978
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
Theatre Play
2016
Turtle Diary
Man in Bookshop
1985Turtle Diary
Screenplay
1985
Breaking the Code
John Smith
1996
Mojo
Sam Ross
1997
The Birthday Party
Theatre Play
1968The Birthday Party
Screenplay
1968
Talk Show
Theatre Play
2011
The Heat of the Day
Writer
1989
Reunion
Screenplay
1989The Servant
Original Film Writer
The Caretaker
Man
1964The Caretaker
Writer
1964
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp / Self (Introduction)
2007
Le Gardien
Author
2007
The Homecoming
Screenplay
1973The Homecoming
Theatre Play
1973
Rogue Male
Saul Abrahams
1976
Victoria Station
Writer
2003
One for the Road
Writer
1985
Betrayal
Writer
1983
A Kind of Alaska
Writer
1984
Old Times
Writer
1991
The Dumb Waiter
Writer
1999The Collection
Writer
Poets Against the Bomb
1981
Langrishe, Go Down
Barry Shannon
1978Langrishe, Go Down
Screenplay
1978
The Rear Column
Director
1980
One for the Road
Nicolas
2001
The Caretaker
Writer
1981
Butley
Director
1974
The Basement
Stott
1967The Basement
Writer
1967
A Slight Ache
Writer
1967
Mountain Language
Writer
1988Mountain Language
Director
1988Working with Pinter
Self
2007Working with Pinter
Writer
2007
The New World Order
Writer
2019
Celebration
Writer
2007
The Birthday Party
Nat Goldberg
1987The Birthday Party
Writer
1987
Art, Truth and Politics
self
2005Art, Truth and Politics
Writer
2005
In Camera
Garcin
1964
The Dumb Waiter
Writer
1985
Party Time
Director
1992Party Time
Screenplay
1992Kolleksjonen
Author
1963
A Night Out
Seeley
1960A Night Out
Writer
1960
Old Times
Writer
1975
The Collection
Writer
2019A Walk By Waiting
Writer
2016This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker
Self
1962
The Hothouse
Director
1982The Hothouse
Writer
1982
A Night Out
Writer
1967Night School
Writer
1960
Retrógrado
Original Story
2024Against the War
himself
1999Against the War
Writer
1999
Last to Go
1969Last to Go
Writer
1969Playdate
Writer
1961
Monologue
Writer
1973Die Geburtstagsfeier
Director
1978The Dumb Waiter
Writer
1961Birthday
Writer
1973