- published: 09 Nov 2011
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Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing National Service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Antonia Fraser in 1980.
Actors: Caitlin Gold (writer), Caitlin Gold (actress), Caitlin Gold (director), Caitlin Gold (producer), Skyler Pinkerton (actor), Skyler Pinkerton (editor), Naomi McDougall Jones (actress), Naomi McDougall Jones (writer), Naomi McDougall Jones (producer), Naomi McDougall Jones (director), Chris Russell (actor), Michael Whitney (actor), Angus Hepburn (actor), Natalia Fedner (actress), Andrew Zox (actor),
Plot: We put great classic characters into various popular reality TV shows and let the madness ensue. The first three episodes follow The "Doll's House" family onto Dr. Phil as they explore their marital strife; Abigail Williams and Hamlet speak to their dead loved ones through the medium John Edwards on "Crossing Over"; and the greatest playwriting minds of the ages are put to the test on Heidi Klum's "Project Playwright."
Genres: Comedy, Short,