Harold Pinter
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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.
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Arena
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Screen Two
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Theatre 625
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BBC2 Play of the Week
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Reunion
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El Cuento de la Cierva
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Laurence Olivier Presents
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The Servant
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NBC Experiment in Television
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Theatre Night
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The Hothouse
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The Comfort of Strangers
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The Pumpkin Eater
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Modesty Blaise, superagente femenino
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Accident
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The Go-Between
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The Last Tycoon
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Sotto falso nome
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The Caretaker
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A Night Out
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The Trial
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Turtle Diary
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National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
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¿Quién es Quiller?
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Basements
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The Homecoming
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The Wednesday Play
Garcin
Theatre 625
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The South Bank Show
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The Culture Show
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BBC2 Play of the Week
Barry Shannon
HARDtalk
El sastre de Panamá
Uncle Benny
The Servant
People in Restaurant: Society Man
NBC Experiment in Television
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Theatre Night
Goldberg
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Man on T.V.
Agudeza
Mr. Bearing
Mansfield Park
Sir Thomas Bertram
Rogue Male
Saul Abrahams
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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Self (archive footage)
The Caretaker
Man
A Night Out
Seeley
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Steven Hench
Turtle Diary
Man in Bookshop
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
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Breaking the Code
John Smith
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
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Mojo
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Poets Against the Bomb
Langrishe, Go Down
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The Basement
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Michael Redgrave: My Father
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Krapp's Last Tape
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