Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 28, 1930
Died
Dec 22, 2016
Place of Birth
London, UK
Credits
99 titles
Philip Saville
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.
Known For
Filmography
Return of the Unknown
Discovering Hamlet
Director
Pinter's Progress
Director
The Gospel of John
Director
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Director
The Biographer
Director
My Uncle Silas
Director
Metroland
Director
Little White Lies
Director
Deacon Brodie
Director
The Buccaneers
Director
Wall of Silence
Director
Family Pictures
Director
Angels
Director
The Cloning of Joanna May
Director
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Director
Max and Helen
Director
Fellow Traveller
Director
Screen One
Director
The Fruit Machine
Director
First Born
Director
First Born
Director
Mandela
Director
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Director
Shadey
Director
Screen Two
Director
Those Glory Glory Days
Director
Boys from the Blackstuff
Director
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
Design for Living
Director
Sam's Song
Director
Rotten
Director
Count Dracula
Director
Count Dracula
Director
Cork and Bottle
Director
The Velvet Glove
Director
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Director
Shuttlecock
Director
Plays for Britain
Director
Moss
Director
Shades of Greene
Director
Private Affairs
Director
A Dream of Living
Director
Gangsters
Director
Churchill's People
Director
Playhouse
Director
The Actual Woman
Director
Second City Firsts
Director
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Director
Access to the Children
Director