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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% 89% The Servant
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86% 77% The Homecoming
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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% 73% Turtle Diary
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78% 76% Mansfield Park
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76% 71% Accident
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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter TURTLE DIARY, Ben Kingsley, writer Harold Pinter, 1985 ©Sameul Goldwyn THE PUMPKIN EATER, Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, 1964 MOJO, Harold Pinter, Ian Hart, 1997 SLEUTH, (clockwise from top left): director Kenneth Branagh, Jude Law, writer Harold Pinter, Michael Caine, on set, 2007, (c)Sony Pictures Classics MANSFIELD PARK, Frances O'Connor, Harold Pinter, 1999, (c)Miramax View more photos

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86% 71% Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story Self - 2023
37% 51% Sleuth Man on T.V. (Character),
Writer 		$342.8K 2007
83% 91% Wit Mr. Bearing (Character) - 2001
75% 46% The Tailor of Panama Uncle Benny (Character) $13.5M 2001
No Score Yet 94% Beckett on Film Unknown (Character) - 2001
78% 76% Mansfield Park Sir Thomas Bertram (Character) $4.8M 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mojo Sam Ross (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 83% Breaking the Code John Smith (Character) - 1992
32% 44% The Handmaid's Tale Screenwriter $1.2M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Heat of the Day Writer - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Basements Screenwriter - 1987
82% 73% Turtle Diary Writer $2.2M 1985
86% 77% Betrayal Writer - 1983
83% 67% The French Lieutenant's Woman Screenwriter - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Langrishe Go Down Writer - 1978
No Score Yet 50% Rogue Male Saul Abrahams (Character) - 1977
33% 40% The Last Tycoon Screenwriter - 1976
No Score Yet 64% Butley Director - 1974
86% 77% The Homecoming Screenwriter - 1973
100% 78% The Go-Between Screenwriter - 1971
No Score Yet 65% The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer Steven Hench (Character) - 1970
76% 71% Accident TV Producer Bell (Character),
Writer 		$17.2K 1967
50% 34% Modesty Blaise Screenwriter - 1966
57% 60% The Quiller Memorandum Screenwriter - 1966
69% 71% The Pumpkin Eater Writer - 1964
90% 89% The Servant Writer $20.7K 1963