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Harold Pinter
Writing

Harold Pinter
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1930-10-10,Hackney, London, England, UK
Gender
Male
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

Filmography

The Tailor of Panama

6.02

The Tailor of Panama
2001-02-11

6.679

Mansfield Park
1999-11-12

6.3

Sleuth
2007-10-12

0

Last to Go
1969-01-01

7.6

The Servant
1963-11-14

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

6.4

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023-06-02

6

Catastrophe
2001-09-01

Against the War

0

Against the War
1999-05-05

7.2

The Caretaker
1964-01-21

4

Mojo
1997-09-02

6.5

Rogue Male
1976-09-22

Krapp's Last Tape

0

Krapp's Last Tape
2007-06-20

4.75

In Camera
1964-11-04

One for the Road

0

One for the Road
2001-07-05

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

0

Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010-01-24

Michael Redgrave: My Father

0

Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997-07-13

7.325

Wit
2001-02-09

6.3

Accident
1967-02-09

Poets Against the Bomb

0

Poets Against the Bomb
1981-11-25

6.214

Turtle Diary
1985-12-06

Langrishe, Go Down

3.667

Langrishe, Go Down
1978-09-20

Breaking the Code

5.1

Breaking the Code
1996-09-17

0

The Basement
1967-02-20

The Birthday Party

6.7

The Birthday Party
1987-06-21

Art, Truth and Politics

0

Art, Truth and Politics
2005-12-07

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

5.882

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970-11-12

0

A Night Out
1960-04-24

This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker

0

This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker
1962-01-01

The South Bank Show

5.6

The South Bank Show
1978-01-14

The Culture Show

6.2

The Culture Show
2004-11-11

NBC Experiment in Television

0

NBC Experiment in Television
1967-02-19

0

Theatre Night
1985-09-15

The Wednesday Play

4.5

The Wednesday Play
1964-09-30

BBC2 Play of the Week

7

BBC2 Play of the Week
1977-09-21

7.2

Theatre 625
1964-05-03

5.9

Tony Awards
1956-04-01