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13 unusual facts about Harold Pinter


Antony Raijekov

2008 A:part:mental art space, Bulgaria - ‘RETURN’ based on Harold Pinter`s ‘Old Times’ - director

David Baron

Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English playwright, and actor under the stage name David Baron

Faraj Sarkohi

“Look Europe”, drama by Ghazi Rabihavi, direction and cooperation: Harold Pinter.

Indira Varma

In 2013 she played Miss Cutts in The Hothouse by Harold Pinter in the Trafalgar Transformed season at Trafalgar Studios.

In 2000 to 2001, she appeared in Harold Pinter and Di Trevis's NT stage adaptation of Pinter's The Proust Screenplay, Remembrance of Things Past, based on À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust.

In the summer of 2001, she played Gila in One for the Road, by Harold Pinter, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Jacqueline Sassard

Other films were Three Murderesses (1959), and British Joseph Losey's Accident, with a script by Harold Pinter (1967), where she played an Austrian princess.

Jeff Hordley

Most recently Hordley took on the role of Mick in Pinter's 1960 play The Caretaker when staged at Bolton's Octagon Theatre from 5–28 March 2009.

Lee Jamieson

As a theatre writer, he has written books about the playwrights Antonin Artaud and Harold Pinter and is the journalist responsible for the Shakespeare pages of About.com.

Marilita Lambropoulou

Marilita has also directed theatre, including The Caretaker by Harold Pinter and Psychology of the Syrian Husband by Emmanuil Roidis.

Oleg Bogayev

He worked in theatre as a set and lighting designer; he became interested in writing plays after being exposed to the work of Harold Pinter.

Penelope Milford

In 2013, Penelope played the role of Deborah in the Harold Pinter play A Kind of Alaska at the Cocoon Theatre in Rhinebeck, New York.

Peru Support Group

Other notable sponsors of the organisation included renowned British writers Harold Pinter and Graham Greene.


Culture of Belarus

The Belarus Free Theatre has attracted the support of notable Western writers such as Tom Stoppard, Edward Bond, Václav Havel, Arthur Kopit and Harold Pinter.

Denis Halliday

On 25 October 2007, when a statue of David Lloyd George was unveiled in Parliament Square, Halliday, Harold Pinter and John Pilger had a letter printed in The Daily Telegraph in which they condemned the "celebration of Lloyd George's legacy", as "disgraceful", likening his policies of aerial bombardment of Middle Eastern countries to the present day Iraq War.

Elleston Trevor

It was filmed in 1966 under its US title with a screenplay by Harold Pinter and starred George Segal and Alec Guinness.

Eye Opener

# 9 February 1965: Uhu. . . Huh? (George Bloomfield producer), included sketches by Harold Pinter and N. F. Simpson, starring Len Birman, Helen Burns and Jennifer Phipps

Glynne Wickham

He also helped to set up a playwriting fellowship in the department, attracting young playwrights like John Arden, and premiered Harold Pinter's first play, The Room in 1957.

Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan

Bookers later acquired the copyrights of other well-known authors, including novelists Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley, Georgette Heyer and the playwrights Robert Bolt and Harold Pinter.

Nigel Lindsay

Lindsay has appeared in five plays at the Almeida Theatre, including as Lenny in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming with Ken Cranham and Danny Dyer in 2009 and as Moe Axelrod alongside Stockard Channing and Jodie Whittaker in Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the 2008 Whatsonstage Awards.

Old Times

Old Times is a play by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.

Penelope Mortimer

Her relationships with men were the inspiration for the novels, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1958; republished in 2008 by Persephone Books) and The Pumpkin Eater (1962; reissued in 2011 by New York Review Books), which was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter.

Peppino De Filippo

Peppino repeatedly showed his extraordinary versatility; particularly noteworthy are his performance in Il Guardiano by Harold Pinter and in The Miser by Molière (as Harpagon), where he proved to be a skillful actor whose ability had grown beyond brilliant and dialect plays.

Pinter's People

Pinter's People is a compilation of revue sketches or short prose works by Harold Pinter, which was performed for four weeks from 30 January 2007, at the Haymarket Theatre, in London, starring Bill Bailey, Geraldine McNulty, Sally Phillips, and Kevin Eldon.

Providence Black Repertory Company

Mainstage productions have included plays by Amiri Baraka, Aisha Rahman, Athol Fugard, Federico García Lorca, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Cheryl West, María Irene Fornés, and August Wilson, as well as original stage adaptations of the poetry of Langston Hughes and Kevin Young (poet).

The Love of the Last Tycoon

A 1976 film version was adapted for the screen by Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter, directed by Elia Kazan (his last film), produced by Sam Spiegel, and released as The Last Tycoon.