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Philip Saville
London, 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. Duri…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2014
Return of the Unknown
Movie
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2011
Discovering Hamlet
Movie Director
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2009
Pinter's Progress
Movie Director
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2003
The Gospel of John
Movie Director
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2002
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
TV show Director
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2002
The Biographer
Movie Director
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2001
My Uncle Silas
TV show Director
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1998
Metroland
Movie Director
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1998
Little White Lies
Movie Director
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1997
Deacon Brodie
Movie Director
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1995
The Buccaneers
TV show Director
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1993
Wall of Silence
Movie Director
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1993
Family Pictures
TV show Director
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1992
Angels
Movie Director
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1992
The Cloning of Joanna May
TV show Director
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1990
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Movie Director
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1990
Max and Helen
Movie Director
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1989
Fellow Traveller
Movie Director
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1989
Screen One
TV show Director
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1988
The Fruit Machine
Movie Director
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1988
First Born
TV show Director
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1988
First Born
Movie Director
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1987
Mandela
Movie Director
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1986
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
TV show Director
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1985
Shadey
Movie Director
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Director
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1983
Those Glory Glory Days
Movie Director
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1982
Boys from the Blackstuff
TV show Director
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1981
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Movie Self
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1979
Design for Living
Movie Director
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1979
Sam's Song
Movie Director
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1978
Rotten
Movie Director
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1977
Count Dracula
Movie Director
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1977
Count Dracula
TV show Director
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1977
Cork and Bottle
Movie Director
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1977
The Velvet Glove
TV show Director
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1976
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Movie Director
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1976
Shuttlecock
Movie Director
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1976
Plays for Britain
TV show Director
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1975
Moss
Movie Director
