Philip Saville
Directing
1930-10-28 · 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.
Filmography
Return of the Unknown
2014 · Movie
Discovering Hamlet
2011 · Movie
Pinter's Progress
2009 · Movie
The Gospel of John
2003 · Movie
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
2002 · Series
The Biographer
2002 · Movie
My Uncle Silas
2001 · Series
Metroland
1998 · Movie
Little White Lies
1998 · Movie
Deacon Brodie
1997 · Movie
The Buccaneers
1995 · Series
Wall of Silence
1993 · Movie
Family Pictures
1993 · Series
Angels
1992 · Movie
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992 · Series
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
1990 · Movie
Max and Helen
1990 · Movie
Fellow Traveller
1989 · Movie
Screen One
1989 · Series
The Fruit Machine
1988 · Movie
First Born
1988 · Series
First Born
1988 · Movie
Mandela
1987 · Movie
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986 · Series
Shadey
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Those Glory Glory Days
1983 · Movie
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982 · Series
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981 · Movie
Design for Living
1979 · Movie
Sam's Song
1979 · Movie
Rotten
1978 · Movie
Count Dracula
1977 · Series
Count Dracula
1977 · Movie
Cork and Bottle
1977 · Movie
The Velvet Glove
1977 · Series
Meriel the Ghost Girl
1976 · Movie
Shuttlecock
1976 · Movie
Plays for Britain
1976 · Series
Moss
1975 · Movie
Shades of Greene
1975 · Series
Private Affairs
1975 · Series
A Dream of Living
1975 · Movie
Gangsters
1975 · Movie
Churchill's People
1974 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
The Actual Woman
1974 · Movie
Second City Firsts
1973 · Series
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · Series
Access to the Children
1973 · Movie
The Creditors
1972 · Movie
In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972 · Movie
O Fat White Woman
1971 · Movie
Secrets
1971 · Movie
The Fox Trot
1971 · Movie
The Rainbirds
1971 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
The Long Distance Piano Player
1970 · Movie
The Best House in London
1969 · Movie
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Series
Oedipus the King
1968 · Movie
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
The Machine Stops
1966 · Movie
Exit 19
1966 · Movie
Five More
1966 · Series
Stop the World — I Want to Get Off
1966 · Movie
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Series
The Logic Game
1965 · Movie
Six
1964 · Series
In Camera
1964 · Movie
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Series
Hamlet at Elsinore
1964 · Movie
Prisoner and Escort
1964 · Movie
Living Image
1963 · Movie
The Paradise Suite
1963 · Movie
The Madhouse on Castle Street
1963 · Movie
Afternoon of a Nymph
1962 · Movie
Night Conspirators
1962 · Movie
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960 · Series
A Night Out
1960 · Movie
An Honourable Murder
1960 · Movie
The Great Van Robbery
1959 · Movie
Three Crooked Men
1958 · Movie
On the Run
1958 · Movie
The Betrayal
1957 · Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1956 · Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Contraband Spain
1955 · Movie
Bang! You're Dead
1954 · Movie
The Mirror and Markheim
1954 · Movie
The Night of the Full Moon
1954 · Movie
The Straw Man
1953 · Movie
Murder at 3am
1953 · Movie
A Piece of Cake
1948 · Movie
The Blind Goddess
1948 · Movie
To the Public Danger
1948 · Movie
Penny and the Pownall Case
1948 · Movie