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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harold Pinter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1930-10-10
- event Death Date 2008-12-24
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 6.1
- info Birth Place Hackney, London, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Harold Pinter
6.1
The Tailor of Panama
2001-03-30
6.7
Mansfield Park
1999-11-12
6.2
Sleuth
2007-10-12
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Last to Go
1969-01-01
7.6
The Servant
1963-11-14
6.4
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023-06-02
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Catastrophe
2001-09-01
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Against the War
1999-05-05
7.2
The Caretaker
1964-01-21
4.8
Mojo
1997-09-02
6.5
Rogue Male
1976-09-22
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Krapp's Last Tape
2007-06-20
6
In Camera
1964-11-04
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One for the Road
2001-07-05
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010-01-24
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Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997-07-13
7.4
Wit
2001-02-09
6.2
Accident
1967-02-09
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Poets Against the Bomb
1981-11-25
6.6
Turtle Diary
1985-12-06
4.2
Langrishe, Go Down
1978-09-20
5.4
Breaking the Code
1996-09-17
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The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981-01-01
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The Basement
1967-02-20
6.7
The Birthday Party
1987-06-21
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Art, Truth and Politics
2006-03-01
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970-11-12
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A Night Out
1960-04-24
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This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker
1962-01-01
5.3
The South Bank Show
1978-01-14
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The Culture Show
2004-11-11
4.6
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
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NBC Experiment in Television
1967-02-19
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Theatre Night
1985-09-15
movie_edit Directing
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Sleuth
2007-10-12
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The Handmaid's Tale
1990-02-15
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Talk Show
2011-06-23
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The Collection
2019-03-19
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981-08-28
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The Go-Between
1971-06-16
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The Last Tycoon
1976-11-18
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The Pumpkin Eater
1964-07-16
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Reunion
1989-05-17
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Accident
1967-02-09
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Against the War
1999-05-05
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The Dumb Waiter
1999-02-02
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The Caretaker
1964-01-21
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The Homecoming
1973-10-29
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Butley
1974-01-21
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The Collection
1976-01-01
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Basements
1987-05-12
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Betrayal
1983-02-19
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The Lover
1963-03-28
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Tea Party
1965-03-25
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A Kind of Alaska
1984-12-16
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No Man's Land
1978-10-03
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The Dwarfs
2002-11-01
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Celebration
2007-02-26
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Old Times
1991-10-26
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Landscape
1995-10-21
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Landscape
1995-10-21
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One for the Road
1985-07-25
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National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
2016-12-15
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Victoria Station
2003-11-02
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The Trial
1993-06-18
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Last to Go
1969-01-01
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The New World Order
2019-01-01
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The Comfort of Strangers
1990-11-01
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A Walk By Waiting
2016-06-05
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The Birthday Party
1968-12-09
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The Birthday Party
1968-12-09
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Die Geburtstagsfeier
1978-01-01
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Turtle Diary
1985-12-06
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The Quiller Memorandum
1966-11-10
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Langrishe, Go Down
1978-09-20
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010-01-24
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The Caretaker
2004-04-19
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The Dumb Waiter
1961-08-10
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Le gardien
2007-01-01
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The Servant
1963-11-14
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A Night Out
1960-04-24
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Retrógrado
2024-07-11
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The Caretaker
1981-06-07
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The Basement
1967-02-20
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A Slight Ache
1967-02-06
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A Night Out
1967-02-13
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Landscape
1983-02-04
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The Hothouse
1982-03-27
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The Hothouse
1982-03-27
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Monologue
1973-04-13
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Old Times
1975-10-22
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Mountain Language
1988-12-11
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Mountain Language
1988-12-11
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The Birthday Party
1987-06-21
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The Heat of the Day
1989-06-09
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The Homecoming
1973-10-29
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Party Time
1992-11-17
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Party Time
1992-11-17
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Art, Truth and Politics
2006-03-01
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The Dumb Waiter
1985-06-23
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Night School
1960-07-21
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The Collection
0
Kolleksjonen
1963-11-28
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Modesty Blaise
1966-05-01
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The Rear Column
1980-10-01
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Under a False Name
2004-11-10
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Arena
1975-10-01
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Laurence Olivier Presents
1976-12-05
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NBC Experiment in Television
1967-02-19
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Theatre Night
1985-09-15
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Teatro Estudio