Harold Pinter

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-10-10 (78 years old)

Deathday

2008-12-24

Place of Birth

Hackney, London, England, UK

Harold Pinter

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 radio, stage, television, and film productions of ...

Acting

2001

The Tailor of Panama

as Uncle Benny

1999

Mansfield Park

as Sir Thomas Bertram

2007

Sleuth

as Man on T.V.

1963

The Servant

as People in Restaurant: Society Man

2023

2001

Catastrophe

as The Director

1999

Against the War

as himself

1964

1997

Mojo

as Sam Ross

1976

Rogue Male

as Saul Abrahams

2007

1964

In Camera

as Garcin

2001

2010

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Wit

as Mr. Bearing

1967

Accident

as Bell - TV Producer

1985

Turtle Diary

as Man in Bookshop

1978

Langrishe, Go Down

as Barry Shannon

1996

Breaking the Code

as John Smith

1967

The Basement

as Stott

1987

The Birthday Party

as Nat Goldberg

1960

A Night Out

as Seeley

Production

2007

Sleuth

as Screenplay

1990

The Handmaid's Tale

as Screenplay

2011

Talk Show

as Theatre Play

2019

1971

The Go-Between

as Screenplay

1976

The Last Tycoon

as Screenplay

1964

The Pumpkin Eater

as Screenplay

1989

Reunion

as Screenplay

1967

Accident

as Screenplay

1999

1999

1964

The Caretaker

as Writer

1973

The Homecoming

as Screenplay

1974

Butley

as Director

1976

The Collection

as Screenplay

1987

Basements

as Writer

1983

Betrayal

as Writer

1963

The Lover

as Writer

1965

Tea Party

as Writer

1978

No Man's Land

as Writer

1984

2007

Celebration

as Writer

2002

The Dwarfs

as Writer

1985

1991

Old Times

as Writer

1995

Landscape

as Director

1995

Landscape

as Writer

2003

1993

The Trial

as Screenplay

1969

Last to Go

as Writer

2019

1990

2016

1968

The Birthday Party

as Screenplay

1968

The Birthday Party

as Theatre Play

1978

1985

Turtle Diary

as Screenplay

1966

1978

Langrishe, Go Down

as Screenplay

2004

The Caretaker

as Author

1961

2007

Le gardien

as Author

1963

The Servant

as Screenplay

1960

A Night Out

as Writer

2024

Retrógrado

as Original Story

1981

The Caretaker

as Writer

1967

A Slight Ache

as Writer

1967

A Night Out

as Writer

1967

The Basement

as Writer

1983

Landscape

as Writer

1975

Old Times

as Writer

1973

Monologue

as Writer

1982

The Hothouse

as Writer

1982

The Hothouse

as Director

1988

1988

1987

1989

1973

The Homecoming

as Theatre Play

1992

Party Time

as Director

1992

Party Time

as Screenplay

1985

1960

Night School

as Writer

-

1963

Kolleksjonen

as Author

1966

Modesty Blaise

as Co-Writer

1980

The Rear Column

as Director

2004

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