Harold Pinter
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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Fotos
Películas (85)
Retrógrado
2024 · Original Story
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023 · Self (archive footage)
The Collection
2019 · Writer
The New World Order
2019 · Writer
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
2016 · Theatre Play
A Walk By Waiting
2016 · Writer
Talk Show
2011 · Theatre Play
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010 · Self (archive footage), Writer
Sleuth
2007 · Man on T.V., Screenplay
Krapp's Last Tape
2007 · Krapp / Self (Introduction)
Working with Pinter
2007 · Self, Writer
Celebration
2007 · Writer
Le Gardien
2007 · Author
Art, Truth and Politics
2005 · self, Writer
Under a False Name
2004 · Thanks
The Caretaker
2004 · Author
Victoria Station
2003 · Writer
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · Self
The Dwarfs
2002 · Writer
Catastrophe
2001 · The Director
One for the Road
2001 · Nicolas
The Tailor of Panama
2001 · Uncle Benny
Wit
2001 · Mr. Bearing
Mansfield Park
1999 · Sir Thomas Bertram
Against the War
1999 · himself, Writer
The Dumb Waiter
1999 · Writer
Mojo
1997 · Sam Ross
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997 · Self
Breaking the Code
1996 · John Smith
Landscape
1995 · Director, Writer
The Trial
1993 · Screenplay
Party Time
1992 · Director, Screenplay
Old Times
1991 · Writer
The Comfort of Strangers
1990 · Screenplay
The Handmaid's Tale
1990 · Screenplay
The Heat of the Day
1989 · Writer
Reunion
1989 · Screenplay
Mountain Language
1988 · Writer, Director
The Birthday Party
1987 · Nat Goldberg, Writer
Basements
1987 · Writer
Turtle Diary
1985 · Man in Bookshop, Screenplay
One for the Road
1985 · Writer
The Dumb Waiter
1985 · Writer
A Kind of Alaska
1984 · Writer
Betrayal
1983 · Writer
Landscape
1983 · Writer
The Hothouse
1982 · Director, Writer
Poets Against the Bomb
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 · Screenplay
The Caretaker
1981 · Writer
The Rear Column
1980 · Director
No Man's Land
1978 · Writer
Langrishe, Go Down
1978 · Barry Shannon, Screenplay
Die Geburtstagsfeier
1978 · Director
The Last Tycoon
1976 · Screenplay
Rogue Male
1976 · Saul Abrahams
The Collection
1976 · Screenplay
Old Times
1975 · Writer
Butley
1974 · Director
The Homecoming
1973 · Screenplay, Theatre Play
Monologue
1973 · Writer
Birthday
1973 · Writer
The Go-Between
1971 · Screenplay
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970 · Steven Hench
Last to Go
1969 · Writer
The Birthday Party
1968 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
The Basement
1967 · Stott, Writer
A Night Out
1967 · Writer
Accident
1967 · Bell - TV Producer, Screenplay
A Slight Ache
1967 · Writer
The Quiller Memorandum
1966 · Screenplay
Modesty Blaise
1966 · Co-Writer
Tea Party
1965 · Writer
In Camera
1964 · Garcin
The Pumpkin Eater
1964 · Screenplay
The Caretaker
1964 · Man, Writer
Kolleksjonen
1963 · Author
The Servant
1963 · People in Restaurant: Society Man, Screenplay
The Lover
1963 · Writer
This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker
1962 · Self
The Dumb Waiter
1961 · Writer
Night School
1960 · Writer
A Night Out
1960 · Seeley, Writer
The Collection
· Writer
The Servant
· Original Film Writer
Series (17)
The Culture Show
2004 · Self
HARDtalk
1997
Performance
1991 · Writer, Director
Theatre Night
1985 · Goldberg, Theatre Play
Summer Season
1985 · Writer
Screen Two
1985 · Screenplay
Do You Remember?
1978 · Writer
The South Bank Show
1978 · Self
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Barry Shannon, Writer
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976 · Writer
Teatro Estudio
1976 · Writer
Arena
1975 · Writer
NBC Experiment in Television
1967 · Self / (voice), Writer
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Garcin
Theatre 625
1964 · Stott, Writer
Playdate
1961 · Writer
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee