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. 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.
75 directing credits · 17 acting credits
Directing · 75
Play for Today
1970
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Playhouse
1974
Screen Two
1985
ITV Playhouse
1967
Churchill's People
1974
Out of the Unknown
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Screen One
1989
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960
Count Dracula
1977
The Buccaneers
1995
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982
Armchair Theatre
1956
My Uncle Silas
2001
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
2002
First Born
1988
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
The Gospel of John
2003
Metroland
1997
Plays for Britain
1976
Oedipus the King
1968
Family Pictures
1993
Count Dracula
1977
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Fellow Traveller
1989
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964
The Fruit Machine
1988
The Best House in London
1969
Wall of Silence
1993
Shadey
1985
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
Deacon Brodie
1997
Max and Helen
1990
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
1990
Angels
1992
The Madhouse on Castle Street
1963
Mandela
1987
The Biographer
2002
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
1966
Secrets
1971
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
Living Image
1963
O Fat White Woman
1971
Afternoon of a Nymph
1962
Little White Lies
1998
The Rainbirds
1971
Design for Living
1979
The Fox Trot
1971
A Night Out
1960
Pinter's Progress
2009
The Long Distance Piano Player
1970
Moss
1975
Cork and Bottle
1977
The Paradise Suite
1963
First Born
1988
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
Access to the Children
1973
Meriel the Ghost Girl
1976
Gangsters
1975
A Dream of Living
1975
Exit 19
1966
Prisoner and Escort
1964
The Machine Stops
1966
Rotten
1978
Night Conspirators
1962
Sam's Song
1979
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1956
In Camera
1964
Shuttlecock
1976
The Creditors
1972
The Actual Woman
1974
The Logic Game
1965
Acting · 17
To the Public Danger
1948
Contraband Spain
1955
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981
Penny and the Pownall Case
1948
A Piece of Cake
1948
Three Crooked Men
1958
Murder at 3am
1953
The Blind Goddess
1948
The Night of the Full Moon
1954
Bang! You're Dead
1954
The Straw Man
1953
The Mirror and Markheim
1954
The Great Van Robbery
1959
On the Run
1958
The Betrayal
1957
An Honourable Murder
1960
Return of the Unknown
2014