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Harold Pinter
Highest Rated: 90% The Servant (1963)
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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89% | 67% | Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story | Self | - | 2023 |
| 36% | 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% | 43% | The Handmaid's Tale | Screenwriter | $1.2M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heat of the Day | Writer | - | 1989 |
| 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% | 78% | The Homecoming | Screenwriter | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Steven Hench (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 76% | 72% | Accident |
TV Producer Bell (Character), Writer |
$17.2K | 1967 |
| 50% | 34% | Modesty Blaise | Screenwriter | - | 1966 |
| 57% | 60% | The Quiller Memorandum | Screenwriter | - | 1966 |
| 67% | 72% | The Pumpkin Eater | Writer | - | 1964 |
| 90% | 89% | The Servant | Writer | $20.7K | 1963 |