Philip Saville

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.^{[citation needed]}

He is active in film and television as of 2006, and has a masterclass studio in London specializing in dramatic improvisation.^[1]

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

Filmography

• 1948 Penny and the Pownall Case, Actor: Police Car Driver
• 1953 Murder at 3 A.M., Actor: Edward/Jim King
• 1953 The Straw Man, Actor: Link Hunter
• 1954 Bang! You're Dead, Actor: Ben Jones
• 1954 The Night of the Full Moon, Actor: Dale Merritt
• 1955 Contraband Spain, Actor: Martin Scott
• 1956 On the Run, Actor: Driscol
• 1957 The Great Van Robbery, Actor: Carter
• 1958 The Betrayal, Actor: Bartel
• 1958 Three Crooked Men, Actor: Seppy
• 1959 An Honourable Murder, Actor: Mark Anthony
• 1964 Hamlet [made for television], director
• 1966 Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, Director
• 1968 Oedipus the King, Director / Screenwriter
• 1969 The Best House in London, Director
• 1971 Secrets, Director / Screenwriter
• 1977 Count Dracula, Director
• 1984 Those Glory, Glory Days, Director
• 1985 Shadey, Director
• 1986 The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Director
• 1987 Mandela, Director
• 1988 The Fruit Machine (1988), a/k/a Wonderland (USA), Director
• 1989 Fellow Traveler, Director
• 1990 Max and Helen, Director
• 1990 Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, Director
• 1991 Angels, Director
• 1991 The Cloning of Joanna May, Director
• 1993 Family Pictures, Director
• 1997 Metroland, Director
• 1998 Little White Lies, Director
• 2000 My Uncle Silas, Director
• 2002 The Biographer: The Secret Life of Princess Di, Director
• 2003 The Gospel of John, Director

External links

• Philip Saville at the Internet Movie Database.
• The Philip Saville Studio
• The New York Times / Philip Saville

References