Philip Saville

Known for DirectingBorn 1930-10-28Died 2016-12-22London, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Family Pictures

A Dream of Living

Moss

The Rainbirds

The Logic Game

The Madhouse on Castle Street

Afternoon of a Nymph

Deacon Brodie

The Biographer

Angels

Count Dracula

Gangsters

O Fat White Woman

The Fox Trot

Armchair Mystery Theatre

My Uncle Silas

Shades of Greene

Access to the Children

Wall of Silence

Cork and Bottle

Meriel the Ghost Girl

The Gospel of John

Boys from the Blackstuff

Discovering Hamlet

Hamlet at Elsinore

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

Screen One

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Screen Two

The Cloning of Joanna May

Max and Helen

First Born

Count Dracula

Bang! You're Dead

Out of the Unknown

Playhouse

The Long Distance Piano Player

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

ITV Playhouse

The Machine Stops

Prisoner and Escort

An Honourable Murder

A Night Out

On the Run

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501

Play for Today

Three Crooked Men