Name: Harold Pinter
Date of Birth: 10 October 1930 Appointed a CBE in 1966 and a Companion of Honour in the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Is being celebrated by the Manitoba Theatre Centre in a festival named Pinter Fest (January 2003). Several of his works are being performed, such as, "Night School" and "The Hot House". He allegedly declined a British Knighthood in 1996. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1996 (1995 season) for the Special Award for his lifetime achievement to the theatre. In the early 1960s, he had an extra-marital affair with broadcaster Joan Bakewell. Later, Pinter went on to write what became the movie Betrayal (1983), which told the story of their affair. ... Won Broadway's 1967 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "The Homecoming." He has also received three other Tony nominations: twice as author of a Best Play nominee, in 1962 for "The Caretaker" and in 1972 for "Old Times," and once as Best Director (Dramatic), in 1969 for "The Man in the Glass Booth." Supported a motion to impeach British Prime Minister Tony Blair after the Iraq war. Underwent radiation treatment for cancer of the esophagus in 2002. Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005. Has a father-son relationship with producer Sam Spiegel, according to Spiegel biographer Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni. Spiegel was quite taken with Pinter's genius, so much so it hurt the film adaptation of The Last Tycoon (1976), wrote "Tycoon" director Elia Kazan in his own autobiography, as Spiegel treated the screenplay as sacrosanct and wouldn't let Kazan change it to create more dramatic tension. Ironically, when Spiegel had first seen a screenplay written by Pinter in the 1960s (The Servant (1963), he had been appalled by its lack of professionalism. Father was a tailor. Joined the Donald Wolfit Shakespearean company in 1953. Brother-in-law of Rachel Billington and Tom Pakenham. His play, "The Caretaker," was nominated for a 1976 Joseph Jefferson Award for Play Production at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Read more Harold Pinter movies (actor)Harold Pinter movies (director)User Comments |
