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Harold Pinter

Highest Rated: 100% The Go-Between (1971)

Lowest Rated: 32% The Handmaid's Tale (1990)

Birthday: Oct 10, 1930

Birthplace: Hackney, London, England, UK

The preeminent playwright of his generation, Harold Pinter honed his literary skills during his twenties, traveling the lonely countrysides of Britain and Ireland as the actor David Baron in different repertory theater companies. Though certainly influenced by the spare, oblique wry dialogue of spiritual mentor Samuel Beckett and to a lesser degree the French absurdist school (i.e., Eugene Ionesco), Pinter's plays seem much more reality-based, grounded in the daily give-and-take of marriage, male friendship and family politics of English commoners. He became a master of "subtext," of that which is unsaid, the psychological life running just under the normal life, which calls the tune.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 78% The Go-Between
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90% 90% The Servant
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86% 77% The Homecoming
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86% 71% Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story Watchlist
86% 77% Betrayal
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83% 67% The French Lieutenant's Woman
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83% 91% Wit
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82% 74% Turtle Diary
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78% 76% Mansfield Park
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76% 71% Accident
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Filmography

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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story 86% 71% 2023 Self Sleuth 37% 51% 2007 Man on T.V. Actor, Writer Wit 83% 91% 2001 Mr. Bearing Actor The Tailor of Panama 75% 46% 2001 Uncle Benny Actor Beckett on Film 94% 2001 Actor Mansfield Park 78% 76% 1999 Sir Thomas Bertram Actor Mojo 1997 Sam Ross Actor Breaking the Code 83% 1992 John Smith Actor The Handmaid's Tale 32% 44% 1990 Screenwriter The Heat of the Day 1989 Writer Basements 1987 Screenwriter Turtle Diary 82% 74% 1985 Writer Betrayal 86% 77% 1983 Writer The French Lieutenant's Woman 83% 67% 1981 Screenwriter Langrishe Go Down 1978 Writer Rogue Male 53% 1977 Saul Abrahams Actor The Last Tycoon 33% 40% 1976 Screenwriter Butley 64% 1974 Director The Homecoming 86% 77% 1973 Screenwriter The Go-Between 100% 78% 1971 Screenwriter The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer 65% 1970 Steven Hench Actor Accident 76% 71% 1967 TV Producer Bell Actor, Writer Modesty Blaise 50% 34% 1966 Screenwriter The Quiller Memorandum 57% 60% 1966 Screenwriter The Pumpkin Eater 69% 71% 1964 Writer
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