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Philip Saville

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip Saville (sometimes credited as Philip Savile, born 28 October 1930, London) is a British actor who turned to television direction and screenwriting in the late 1950s. During the 1960s he directed several important television plays, such as Harold Pinter's A Night Out (1960) for ABC's Armchair Theatre anthology series, and the lost Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) for the BBC. The later production became famous as the first acting appearance of the American folk singer Bob Dylan, whom Saville had flown over to the UK specifically to take part in the play. Other notable programmes on which Saville worked included Out of the Unknown (1965) and the Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) for which Saville received a BAFTA to add to his earlier BAFTA for Hamlet. In film Saville directed The Fruit Machine (1988, released as Wonderland in the USA), Metroland (1997) and The Gospel of John (2003). Saville has been called one of the UK's top 100 directors of all time. He is active in film and television as of 2006, and has a masterclass studio in London specializing in dramatic improvisation. Philip Saville has recently completed a special documentary on Harold Pinter Pinter's Progress for Sundance international television channels and UK's Sky Arts. Saville is currently developing further arts programming with Sundance and British TV company 3DD Productions including Discovering Hamlet now in production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Oct 28, 1930 In London, UK
Movie/TV Credits:
13
First Appeared:
In the movie Penny and the Pownall Case 1948-06-26
Latest Project:
Movie The Journal of Bridget Hitler 1981-02-06
Known For
Poster of An Honourable Murder
Poster of The Great Van Robbery
Poster of Bang! You're Dead
Poster of Murder at 3am
Filmography
Movie The Journal of Bridget Hitler Self 1981-02-06
Movie An Honourable Murder Mark Anthony 1960-03-31
Movie The Great Van Robbery Chase 1959-01-16
Movie Three Crooked Men Seppy 1958-10-01
Movie The Betrayal Bartel 1957-01-01
Movie Contraband Spain Martin Scott 1955-03-15
Movie Bang! You're Dead Ben Jones 1954-03-15
Movie The Straw Man Link Hunter 1953-08-17
Movie Murder at 3am Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King 1953-07-01
Movie Penny and the Pownall Case Slim, Police Car Driver 1948-06-26
Movie To the Public Danger Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited) 1948-09-01
Movie A Piece of Cake Dinner Guest 1948-11-01
Movie The Blind Goddess Mainwaring's Junior 1948-09-14