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person_profile-Philip Saville

Philip Saville Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Philip Saville

Date of Birth:

Oct 28, 1930

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Dec 22, 2016

Biography of

Philip Saville

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    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.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

Philip Saville

Found 10 Movies in total

The Journal of Bridget Hitler

Self ( Actor )

Writer

... 1981

The Great Van Robbery

Chase ( Actor )

... 1959

The Betrayal

Bartel ( Actor )

... 1957

Contraband Spain

Martin Scott ( Actor )

... 1955

Bang! You're Dead

Ben Jones ( Actor )

... 1954

The Straw Man

Link Hunter ( Actor )

... 1953

Murder at 3am

Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King ( Actor )

... 1953

The Blind Goddess

Mainwaring's Junior ( Actor )

... 1948

To the Public Danger

Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1948

Penny and the Pownall Case

Slim, Police Car Driver ( Actor )

... 1948