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Harold Pinter

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  • 1930 - 2008

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, poet, left-wing political activist, cricket enthusiast, and Nobel laureate. He was one of the most influential and imitated of modern British dramatists. Pinter's writing career spanned over 50 years and produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches, and letters. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He directed almost 50 stage, television, and film productions and acted extensively in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts between ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past. Stylistically, these works are marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, irony, and menace. Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual identity oppressed by social forces, language, and vicissitudes of memory. In 1981, Pinter stated that he was not inclined to write plays explicitly about political subjects; yet in the mid 1980s he began writing overtly political plays. This "new direction" in his work and his left-wing political activism stimulated additional critical debate. Pinter, his work, and his politics have been the subject of voluminous critical commentary. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Tony Award for Best Play for The Homecoming in 1967, eight BAFTA awards for screenwriting and a BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, the French Légion d'honneur in 2007, and 20 honorary degrees. Festivals and symposia have been devoted to him and his work. In awarding Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005, the Swedish Academy noted: "Harold Pinter is generally seen as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century. That he occupies a position as a modern classic is illustrated by his name entering the language as an adjective used to describe a particular atmosphere and environment in drama: 'Pinteresque'." 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. The following week he was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, in North West London. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harold Pinter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Birthday: 1930-10-10

Born At: Hackney, east London, England

Casted In:

The Tailor of Panama
2575
Sleuth
4520
Mansfield Park
10399
The Servant
42987
Catastrophe
71025
Accident
74544
Against the War
79292
Breaking the Code
90755
The Caretaker
120959
Langrishe, Go Down
122522
Turtle Diary
123047
Mojo
125082
Rogue Male
141752
Krapp's Last Tape
218982
In Camera
269994
Poets Against the Bomb
427771
The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman
481918
The Birthday Party
579460

Crewed In:

Sleuth
4520
The French Lieutenant's Woman
12537
The Handmaid's Tale
20815
The Go-Between
36194
Modesty Blaise
36645
The Last Tycoon
37774
The Comfort of Strangers
41925
The Servant
42987
The Quiller Memorandum
46041
The Pumpkin Eater
69557
The Trial
69703
Reunion
73931
Accident
74544
Against the War
79292
Butley
118121
The Caretaker
120959
The Birthday Party
121052
The Homecoming
122291
Langrishe, Go Down
122522
Turtle Diary
123047
The Collection
137984
Basements
139126
Betrayal
139383
The Lover
139625
Tea Party
139627
No Man's Land
139637
A Kind of Alaska
139641
Celebration
139795
The Dwarfs
139797
One for the Road
139977
Old Times
139981
Landscape
139983
Die Geburtstagsfeier
385804
National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
430292
Harold Pinter:   A Celebration
442063
Fastighetsskötaren
442294
Mountain Language
578979
The Birthday Party
579460
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