Philip Saville
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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Films (69)
Return of the Unknown
2014
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Director
Pinter's Progress
2009 · Director
L'Évangile de Jean
2003 · Director
The Biographer
2002 · Director
Metroland
1998 · Director
Little White Lies
1998 · Director
Deacon Brodie
1997 · Director
Wall of Silence
1993 · Director
Angels
1992 · Director
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
1990 · Director
Max and Helen
1990 · Director
Fellow Traveller
1989 · Director
The Fruit Machine
1988 · Director
First Born
1988 · Director
Mandela
1987 · Director
Shadey
1985 · Director
Those Glory Glory Days
1983 · Director
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981 · Self, Director, Writer
Design for Living
1979 · Director
Sam's Song
1979 · Director
Rotten
1978 · Director
Count Dracula
1977 · Director
Cork and Bottle
1977 · Director
Meriel the Ghost Girl
1976 · Director
Shuttlecock
1976 · Director
Moss
1975 · Director
A Dream of Living
1975 · Director
Gangsters
1975 · Director
The Actual Woman
1974 · Director
Access to the Children
1973 · Director
The Creditors
1972 · Writer, Director
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972 · Director
O Fat White Woman
1971 · Director
Secrets
1971 · Director, Story
The Fox Trot
1971 · Director
The Rainbirds
1971 · Director
The Long Distance Piano Player
1970 · Director
The Best House in London
1969 · Director
Oedipus the King
1968 · Screenplay, Director
The Machine Stops
1966 · Director
Exit 19
1966 · Director, Writer
Stop the World — I Want to Get Off
1966 · Director
The Logic Game
1965 · Director, Writer
In Camera
1964 · Director, Writer
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 · Director
Prisoner and Escort
1964 · Director
Living Image
1963 · Director
The Paradise Suite
1963 · Director
The Madhouse on Castle Street
1963 · Director, Producer
Afternoon of a Nymph
1962 · Director
Night Conspirators
1962 · Director
A Night Out
1960 · Director
An Honourable Murder
1960 · Mark Anthony
The Great Van Robbery
1959 · Chase
Three Crooked Men
1958 · Seppy
On the Run
1958 · Driscoll
The Betrayal
1957 · Bartel
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1956 · Director, Producer
Contraband Spain
1955 · Martin Scott
Bang! You're Dead
1954 · Ben Jones
The Night of the Full Moon
1954 · Dale Merritt
The Mirror and Markheim
1954 · Markheim
The Straw Man
1953 · Link Hunter
Murder at 3am
1953 · Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King
A Piece of Cake
1948 · Dinner Guest
The Blind Goddess
1948 · Mainwaring's Junior
To the Public Danger
1948 · Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)
Penny and the Pownall Case
1948 · Slim, Police Car Driver
Séries (30)
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
2002 · Director
My Uncle Silas
2001 · Director
The Buccaneers
1995 · Director, Producer
Family Pictures
1993 · Director
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992 · Director
Screen One
1989 · Director
First Born
1988 · Director
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986 · Director
Screen Two
1985 · Director
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982 · Director
Count Dracula
1977 · Director
The Velvet Glove
1977 · Director
Plays for Britain
1976 · Director
Shades of Greene
1975 · Director
Private Affairs
1975 · Director
Churchill's People
1974 · Director
Playhouse
1974 · Director, Teleplay
Second City Firsts
1973 · Director
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · Director
Play for Today
1970 · Director
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Director
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Director
Five More
1966 · Director, Writer
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Director
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Director
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Director
Six
1964 · Director, Writer
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Adaptation, Director
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960 · Director
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Director, Writer