Philip Saville
Directing
Born 1930-10-28
Died 2016-12-22
London, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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Directing
57 credits
Play for Today
BBC Play of the Month
The Wednesday Play
Screen Two
Playhouse
ITV Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Screen One
Churchill's People
Out of the Unknown
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Second City Firsts
Armchair Mystery Theatre
The Buccaneers
Private Affairs
My Uncle Silas
First Born
Boys from the Blackstuff
Shades of Greene
Plays for Britain
The Gospel of John
Family Pictures
The Velvet Glove
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
The Cloning of Joanna May
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Six
Mandela
The Fruit Machine
Count Dracula
Metroland
Armchair Theatre
Night Conspirators
Fellow Traveller
The Best House in London
Max and Helen
Discovering Hamlet
Afternoon of a Nymph
Oedipus the King
Count Dracula
Pinter's Progress
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Sam's Song
The Cloning of Joanna May
Hamlet at Elsinore
Rotten
Shuttlecock
Gangsters
The Long Distance Piano Player
Deacon Brodie
First Born
The Biographer
The Paradise Suite
In Camera
Those Glory Glory Days
Meriel the Ghost Girl
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