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3 days ago · Harold Pinter CH CBE ( / ˈpɪntər /; 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.
Natasha A. Fraser looks back on the cinematic legacy of her stepfather Harold Pinter (1930–2008), whose fourteen screenplays were directed by the likes of Joseph Losey, Elia Kazan and Karel Reisz. Here, Fraser fondly remembers Pinter’s understanding of actors, the yellow legal pads he wrote his scripts on, his Hollywood flirtations and ...
4 days ago · The Harold Pinter season at Chiswick Cinema runs until September with a series of films for which the late writer, who used to live in Chiswick, created the screenplays. Much better known as a playwright, for plays such as The Caretaker, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party , Pinter wrote 27 screenplays for films in all, 14 of which were made ...
Jun 24, 2024 · Theatre Correspondent Ruth Spurgeon was at York Theatre Royal to watch Harold Pinter's The Homecoming.
Jun 14, 2024 · No disrespect to Harold Pinter’s many achievements, but had he stopped writing after The Caretaker (1960), his break-through hit, then – much as if Samuel Beckett had penned no further stage...
Jun 15, 2024 · The Caretaker by Harold Pinter has opened at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. It marks Chichester Festival Theatre artistic director Justin Audibert’s own directorial debut at the theatre. Gary Shipton was in the audience.
Jun 24, 2024 · Harold Pinter wrote The Hothouse in the winter of 1958, just before The Caretaker. This revival at CFT was the first since its premiere in 1980 and also starred Christien Anholt, Peter Blythe, Tony Haygarth, Celia Imrie, Roland Oliver and John Shrapnel.
