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person_profile-Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter Died at age: 78

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Harold Pinter

Date of Birth:

Oct 10, 1930

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Dec 24, 2008

Biography of

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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Filmography of

Harold Pinter

Found 23 Movies in total

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

Writer

... 2010

Sleuth

Man on T.V. ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2007

Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp ( Actor )

... 2007

Art, Truth and Politics

self ( Actor )

Writer

... 2006

The Tailor of Panama

Uncle Benny ( Actor )

... 2001

Wit

Mr. Bearing ( Actor )

... 2001

Mansfield Park

Sir Thomas Bertram ( Actor )

... 1999

Mojo

Sam Ross ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1997

Breaking the Code

John Smith ( Actor )

... 1996

The Birthday Party

Nat Goldberg ( Actor )

Writer

... 1987

Turtle Diary

Man in Bookshop ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1985

... 1981

Langrishe, Go Down

Barry Shannon ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1978

Rogue Male

Saul Abrahams ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1970

The Basement

Stott ( Actor )

Writer

... 1967

Accident

Bell - TV Producer ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1967

In Camera

Garcin ( Actor )

... 1964

The Caretaker

Man ( Actor )

Writer

... 1964

The Servant

People in Restaurant: Society Man ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1963

A Night Out

Seeley ( Actor )

Writer

... 1960