Harold Pinter was born in 1930 and died in 2008. Pinter was a very famous English playwright in addition to a screewriter, actor, director, poet, author, and a political activist. He began his theatrical career in the middle 1950s as an actor and used the stage name David Baron.
Over his lifetime, Pinter produced 29 original stage plays, 2
7 screenplays, several dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches, and letters. In addition to producing, he directed nearly 50 stage, television, and film productions, as well as acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his works as well as others. "Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts among ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past; stylistically, these works marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, irony, and menace."
In the middle 1980s, Pinter took a new direction incorporating political interests into his personal life. He was greatly recognized for his cultural influence and achievements across genres and media. Pinter had many memories from when he was growing up of having to evacuate his family home. "Prime memories of evacuation being of loneliness, bewilderedness, separation and loss: themes that carry throughout his works."
Pinter received the Nobel Prize in Literature
20 honorary degrees
Training and Experience:
- 1948 attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- 1949 dropped out
- 1949-1950 role in Dick Whittington and His Cat
- 1951 six months in Central School of Speech and Drama
- 1951-1952 toured Ireland with Anew McMaster
- 1952 began acting in England
- 1953-1954 worked for Donald Wolfit Company
- 1954-1959 Acted under stage name David Baron
Some of Pinter's works:
The Room- Pinter's first play in 1957
Pinter as an actor:
The Servant (1963)
Turtle Diary (1985)
Accident (1967)
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Beckett On Film (2001)
Pinter as a director:
The Homecoming (1965)
Life Support (1997)
The Late Middle Class (1999)
The Old Masters (2004)
Twelve Angry Men (1996)
In 2001, Pinter was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and passed away in 2008.
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