Harold Pinter
Writing
Born October 10, 1930 · Hackney, London, England, UK
Biography
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…
Known For · 39 titles
Tony Awards
The South Bank Show
Theatre 625
The Wednesday Play
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Culture Show
HARDtalk
Theatre Night
NBC Experiment in Television
The Tailor of Panama
The Servant
Mansfield Park
Sleuth
Wit
Catastrophe
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Mojo
Accident
Michael Redgrave: My Father
The Caretaker
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Turtle Diary
The Birthday Party
Breaking the Code
Rogue Male
Langrishe, Go Down
In Camera
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Poets Against the Bomb
The Basement
Working with Pinter
Last to Go
A Night Out
One for the Road
Krapp's Last Tape
Art, Truth and Politics
Against the War
This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker