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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
all 74
Movies 63
Director 58
TV Shows 11
Producer 1
self 1
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
Pinter's Progress (2009)
The Gospel of John (2003)
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2002)
The Biographer (2002)
My Uncle Silas (2001)
Little White Lies (1998)
Metroland (1997)
Deacon Brodie (1997)
The Buccaneers (1995)
Wall of Silence (1993)
The Fruit Machine (1993)
Family Pictures (1993)
Angels (1992)
The Cloning of Joanna May (1992)
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990)
Max and Helen (1990)
Fellow Traveller (1989)
First Born (1988)
First Born (1988)
Mandela (1987)
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986)
Shadey (1985)
Those Glory Glory Days (1983)
Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)
The Journal of Bridget Hitler (1981)
Design for Living (1979)
Rotten (1978)
Count Dracula (1977)
Count Dracula (1977)
Meriel the Ghost Girl (1976)
Shuttlecock (1976)
Moss (1975)
A Dream of Living (1975)
Gangsters (1975)
The Actual Woman (1974)
Access to the Children (1973)
The Creditors (1972)
In the Beautiful Caribbean (1972)
O Fat White Woman (1971)
Secrets (1971)
The Fox Trot (1971)
The Rainbirds (1971)
Play for Today (1970)
The Long Distance Piano Player (1970)
The Best House in London (1969)
Oedipus the King (1968)
Exit 19 (1966)
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
Out of the Unknown (1965)
The Logic Game (1965)
In Camera (1964)
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
Living Image (1963)
The Paradise Suite (1963)
The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963)
Afternoon of a Nymph (1962)
A Night Out (1960)
An Honourable Murder (1960)
The Great Van Robbery (1959)
Three Crooked Men (1958)
The Betrayal (1957)
Contraband Spain (1955)
Bang! You're Dead (1954)
The Night of the Full Moon (1954)
The Mirror and Markheim (1954)
The Straw Man (1953)
Murder at 3am (1953)
A Piece of Cake (1948)
The Blind Goddess (1948)
To the Public Danger (1948)
Penny and the Pownall Case (1948)
Hamlet at Elsinore
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1930-10-28
Deathday2016-12-22 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
ChildrenElizabeth Saville, Sebastian Saville
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesSt John's Wood, United Kingdom
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