Philip Saville
Director
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Movies
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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.
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Behind the Camera
Play for Today
Director
The Wednesday Play
Adaptation, Director
BBC Play of the Month
Director
Playhouse
Director, Teleplay
Screen Two
Director
ITV Playhouse
Director
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Director
Out of the Unknown
Director
Churchill's People
Director
Screen One
Director
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Director
The Buccaneers
Director, Productor
Count Dracula
Director
Boys from the Blackstuff
Director
Armchair Theatre
Director, Escritor
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Director
My Uncle Silas
Director
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Director
El Evangelio Segun San Juan
Director
Count Dracula
Director
Metroland
Director
First Born
Director
Oedipus the King
Guionista, Director
Family Pictures
Director
Plays for Britain
Director
The Fruit Machine
Director
La Marca De Los Condenados
Director
Discovering Hamlet
Director
The Best House in London
Director
Shadey
Director
As Actor/Actress
To the Public Danger
Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)
Contraband Spain
Martin Scott
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
Murder at 3am
Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King
Penny and the Pownall Case
Slim, Police Car Driver
A Piece of Cake
Dinner Guest
The Straw Man
Link Hunter
Three Crooked Men
Seppy
The Great Van Robbery
Chase
The Blind Goddess
Mainwaring's Junior
The Mirror and Markheim
Markheim
Bang! You're Dead
Ben Jones
The Betrayal
Bartel
Return of the Unknown