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Philip Saville

Philip Saville

Director · 1930–2016 · London, UK

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Biography

Philip Saville (sometimes credited as Philip Savile, born 28 October 1930, London) is a British actor who turned to television direction and screenwriting in the late 1950s. During the 1960s he directed several important television plays, such as Harold Pinter's A Night Out (1960) for ABC's Armchair Theatre anthology series, and the lost Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) for the BBC. The later production became famous as the first acting appearance of the American folk singer Bob Dylan, whom Saville had flown over to the UK specifically to take part in the play. Other notable programmes on which Saville worked included Out of the Unknown (1965) and the Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) for which Saville received a BAFTA to add to his earlier BAFTA for Hamlet. In film Saville directed The Fruit Machine (1988, released as Wonderland in the USA), Metroland (1997) and The Gospel of John (2003). Saville has been called one of the UK's top 100 directors of all time. He is active in film and television as of 2006, and has a masterclass studio in London specializing in dramatic improvisation. Philip Saville has recently completed a special documentary on Harold Pinter Pinter's Progress for Sundance international television channels and UK's Sky Arts. Saville is currently developing further arts programming with Sundance and British TV company 3DD Productions including Discovering Hamlet now in production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed 70

2010s

  1. 2011

    Discovering Hamlet

    Director

2000s

  1. 2009

    Pinter's Progress

    Director

  2. 2003

    The Gospel of John

    Director

    63
  3. 2002

    Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

    Director

  4. The Biographer

    Director

  5. 2001

    My Uncle Silas

    Director

1990s

  1. 1998

    Metroland

    Director

  2. Little White Lies

    Director

  3. 1997

    Deacon Brodie

    Director

  4. 1995

    The Buccaneers

    Director

  5. 1993

    Wall of Silence

    Director

  6. Family Pictures

    Director

  7. 1992

    Angels

    Director

  8. The Cloning of Joanna May

    Director

  9. 1990

    Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501

    Director

  10. Max and Helen

    Director

1980s

  1. 1989

    Fellow Traveller

    Director

  2. Screen One

    Director

  3. 1988

    The Fruit Machine

    Director

  4. First Born

    Director

  5. First Born

    Director

  6. 1987

    Mandela

    Director

  7. 1986

    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

    Director

    78
  8. 1985

    Shadey

    Director

  9. Screen Two

    Director

  10. 1983

    Those Glory Glory Days

    Director

  11. 1982

    Boys from the Blackstuff

    Director

    83
  12. 1981

    The Journal of Bridget Hitler

    Director

1970s

  1. 1979

    Design for Living

    Director

  2. 1978

    Rotten

    Director

  3. 1977

    Count Dracula

    Director

  4. Count Dracula

    Director

  5. 1976

    Meriel the Ghost Girl

    Director

  6. Shuttlecock

    Director

  7. Plays for Britain

    Director

  8. 1975

    Moss

    Director

  9. Shades of Greene

    Director

  10. Gangsters

    Director

  11. 1974

    Churchill's People

    Director

  12. Playhouse

    Director

  13. The Actual Woman

    Director

  14. 1973

    Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

    Director

  15. Access to the Children

    Director

  16. 1972

    The Creditors

    Director

  17. In the Beautiful Caribbean

    Director

  18. 1971

    O Fat White Woman

    Director

  19. Secrets

    Director

  20. The Fox Trot

    Director

  21. The Rainbirds

    Director

  22. 1970

    The Long Distance Piano Player

    Director

  23. Play for Today

    Director

    73

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Best House in London

    Director

  2. ITV Saturday Night Theatre

    Director

  3. 1968

    Oedipus the King

    Director

  4. 1967

    ITV Playhouse

    Director

  5. 1966

    The Machine Stops

    Director

  6. Exit 19

    Director

  7. Stop the World — I Want to Get Off

    Director

  8. 1965

    BBC Play of the Month

    Director

  9. Thirty-Minute Theatre

    Director

  10. Out of the Unknown

    Director

  11. 1964

    In Camera

    Director

  12. The Wednesday Play

    Director

  13. Hamlet at Elsinore

    Director

  14. 1963

    Living Image

    Director

  15. The Madhouse on Castle Street

    Director

  16. 1962

    Afternoon of a Nymph

    Director

  17. Night Conspirators

    Director

  18. 1960

    A Night Out

    Director

1950s

  1. 1956

    Armchair Theatre

    Director

Acted in 13

2010s

  1. 2014

    Return of the Unknown

    Movie

1950s

  1. 1959

    The Great Van Robbery

    Chase

  2. 1958

    Three Crooked Men

    Seppy

  3. 1957

    The Betrayal

    Bartel

  4. 1955

    Contraband Spain

    Martin Scott

  5. 1954

    Bang! You're Dead

    Ben Jones

  6. The Mirror and Markheim

    Markheim

  7. 1953

    The Straw Man

    Link Hunter

  8. Murder at 3am

    Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King

1940s

  1. 1948

    A Piece of Cake

    Dinner Guest

  2. The Blind Goddess

    Mainwaring's Junior

  3. To the Public Danger

    Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)

  4. Penny and the Pownall Case

    Slim, Police Car Driver

Wrote 9

1980s

  1. 1981

    The Journal of Bridget Hitler

    Writer

1970s

  1. 1974

    Playhouse

    Teleplay

  2. 1972

    The Creditors

    Writer

  3. 1971

    Secrets

    Story

1960s

  1. 1968

    Oedipus the King

    Screenplay

  2. 1966

    Exit 19

    Writer

  3. 1964

    In Camera

    Writer

  4. The Wednesday Play

    Adaptation

1950s

  1. 1956

    Armchair Theatre

    Writer

Produced 2

1990s

  1. 1995

    The Buccaneers

    Producer

1960s

  1. 1963

    The Madhouse on Castle Street

    Producer

Appearances1

1980s

  1. 1981

    The Journal of Bridget Hitler

    Self