Harold Pinter - an original playwright.
One of the leading playwrights throughout the history of the British theatre, here is a list which includes various TV and film adaptations of Pinter's work, as well as his screenplays.
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- DirectorClive DonnerStarsAlan BatesDonald PleasenceRobert ShawWhile renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.A classic of drama.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsRobert ShawPatrick MageeSydney TaflerThe down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
- DirectorPeter HallStarsCyril CusackIan HolmPaul RogersIn a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDirk BogardeSarah MilesWendy CraigUpper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.
- DirectorJack ClaytonStarsAnne BancroftPeter FinchJames MasonBeautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDirk BogardeStanley BakerJacqueline SassardAt Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsLeo McKernVivien MerchantJennifer WrightA self-made millionaire of humble origins acquires a new secretary just as he's about to marry a woman of aristocratic lineage. He also starts to suffer mysterious problems with his eyesight and slowly becomes delusional.
- StarsJames MacandrewFaubion BowersMargaret CroydenA weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
- StarsDavid Hugh JonesBarry StantonValentine PalmerA look at some outstanding and controversial plays of the past ten years, suggesting how they might best be understood and appreciated.
- StarsHarry H. CorbettPaul Whitsun-JonesBillie WhitelawThis show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
- StarsDerek FrancisAlfred BurkeArthur HewlettAn anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
- StarsCampbell SingerThomas HeathcoteRichard CaldicotRichard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGeorge SegalAlec GuinnessMax von SydowIn the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsMonica VittiTerence StampDirk BogardeStylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.
- DirectorJoan Kemp-WelchStarsAlan BadelVivien MerchantMichael ForrestA sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJulie ChristieAlan BatesDominic GuardA tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.
- DirectorKris BetzStarsRik AndriesBob Van der VekenVeerle WijffelsLaw receives an unexpected late night visit from his friend Stott and Stott's girlfriend Jane, during which they take over Law's bed to make love and then plant roots in Law's flat for weeks.
- StarsMichael BryantJudi DenchMaurice DenhamDrama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
- CreatorSheldon EppsStarsScott YooJulie AndrewsRenée FlemingFilmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsJohn TravoltaTom ContiLinda HuntAdaptations of two early plays, The Room and The Dumb Waiter, by Nobel Prize-winning English playwright Harold Pinter. The first revolves around a paranoiac woman trapped in her apartment. The other is about two small-time crooks waiting.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsAnna CropperBarry FosterMary MillerBBC adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1971 two-act play, about a married couple and the wife's friend, Anna.
- DirectorHarold PinterStarsDerek NewarkJames GrantAngela PleasenceIrregular occurrences in a government psychiatric hospital - including a mystery birth and a mystery death.
- DirectorKenneth IvesStarsColin BlakelyDorothy TutinA dysfunctional couple remember a better time.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsHenry WoolfA man sits alone remembering the girl he lost to his best friend.
- StarsJudi DenchRichard O'CallaghanFrederick TrevesAnthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
- DirectorLars LöfgrenStarsFrimann Falck ClausenElse HeibergEgil Hjorth-JenssenWe meet an elderly couple in a poor room in a lousy tenement and witness their meeting with the hostile and dangerous world outside the door.
- DirectorJulian AymesPeter HallStarsRalph RichardsonJohn GielgudMichael KitchenIn this television adaptation of the Harold Pinter classic, a seedy poet (Sir John Gielgud) shows up at the house of a rich writer (Sir Ralph Richardson) and they start reminiscing about the "past".
- DirectorElia KazanStarsRobert De NiroTony CurtisRobert MitchumF. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
- DirectorKenneth IvesStarsSusan EngelPaul ScofieldDorothy TutinA woman who fell victim to sleeping sickness many years ago wakes up in middle age.
- DirectorDavid Hugh JonesStarsJeremy IronsBen KingsleyPatricia HodgeAn affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.
- DirectorHarold PinterStarsAlan BatesJessica TandyRichard O'CallaghanAn English professor finds his life crumbling around him.
- DirectorHarold PinterStarsBarry FosterClive FrancisDonald Gee
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsMeryl StreepJeremy IronsHilton McRaeAnna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.
- DirectorKenneth IvesStarsKenneth CranhamWarren MitchellJonathan PryceWhile renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.
- StarsKenneth CranhamRobert LangNatalie OgleAdaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsChristopher WalkenRupert EverettNatasha RichardsonA couple retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with a stranger leads them into a world of intrigue - where their darkest desires are in reach.
- DirectorHarold PinterStarsMichael GambonMiranda RichardsonJulian WadhamA study in interrogation and imprisonment.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsNatasha RichardsonFaye DunawayAidan QuinnUnder a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children. Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsMichael GambonPatricia HodgeMichael YorkIn World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.
- CreatorAnthony HaasDuke EriksonBernard MacMahonStarsGavin MillarKenneth TynanJohn WaltersWide-ranging arts program.
- DirectorHarry BurtonStarsPatrick BrennanHarry BurtonStephen Greif
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