Philip Saville
Known for: Directing
Born: October 28, 1930
Died: December 22, 2016
Place of birth: 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. 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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Filmography
69 movies · 30 TV shows, newest first
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Return of the Unknown
2014
7.5
Discovering Hamlet
2011
4.0
Pinter's Progress
2009
7.6
The Gospel of John
2003
7.1
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
2002
9.0
The Biographer
2002
8.5
My Uncle Silas
2001
5.8
Metroland
1998
4.0
Little White Lies
1998
9.5
Deacon Brodie
1997
6.0
The Buccaneers
1995
8.0
Wall of Silence
1993
10.0
Family Pictures
1993
9.0
Angels
1992
NR
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
6.5
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
1990
7.0
Max and Helen
1990
4.2
Fellow Traveller
1989
7.2
Screen One
1989
6.0
The Fruit Machine
1988
7.0
First Born
1988
6.3
First Born
1988
4.8
Mandela
1987
7.2
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
4.4
Shadey
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
5.3
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
7.8
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982
NR
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981
4.0
Design for Living
1979NR
Sam's Song
1979
NR
Rotten
1978
7.0
Count Dracula
1977
9.0
Count Dracula
19778.0
Cork and Bottle
1977NR
The Velvet Glove
1977
8.0
Meriel the Ghost Girl
1976
NR
Shuttlecock
1976
6.0
Plays for Britain
1976
10.0
Moss
1975
8.5
Shades of Greene
197510.0
A Dream of Living
1975NR
Private Affairs
1975
9.0
Gangsters
1975
5.0
Churchill's People
1974
7.0
Playhouse
1974
NR
The Actual Woman
1974NR
Second City Firsts
1973
6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
8.5
Access to the Children
1973
4.0
The Creditors
1972
NR
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972
9.0
O Fat White Woman
1971
4.5
Secrets
1971
9.0
The Fox Trot
1971
10.0
The Rainbirds
1971
7.0
The Long Distance Piano Player
1970
6.6
Play for Today
1970
4.0
The Best House in London
1969
7.0
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
6.0
Oedipus the King
1968
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
7.0
The Machine Stops
1966
NR
Exit 19
1966NR
Five More
1966
5.0
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
1966
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
7.1
Out of the Unknown
196510.0
The Logic Game
1965NR
Six
1964
5.6
In Camera
1964
5.2
The Wednesday Play
1964
8.0
Hamlet at Elsinore
19647.0
Prisoner and Escort
1964
NR
Living Image
1963NR
The Paradise Suite
1963
10.0
The Madhouse on Castle Street
1963
10.0
Afternoon of a Nymph
1962
NR
Night Conspirators
19629.0
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960
7.0
A Night Out
19607.0
An Honourable Murder
1960
5.2
The Great Van Robbery
1959
6.7
Three Crooked Men
19587.0
On the Run
1958
6.3
The Betrayal
1957NR
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1956
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
6.2
Contraband Spain
1955
7.3
Bang! You're Dead
1954NR
The Night of the Full Moon
1954
NR
The Mirror and Markheim
1954
6.3
The Straw Man
1953
6.0
Murder at 3am
1953
5.3
A Piece of Cake
1948
5.8
The Blind Goddess
1948
6.2
To the Public Danger
1948
6.1
Penny and the Pownall Case
1948