Harold Pinter

個人簡介

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Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, poet, left-wing political activist, cricket enthusiast, and Nobel laureate. He was one of the most influential and imitated of modern British dramatists. Pinter's writing career spanned over 50 years and produced 29 original stage plays, 27 screenplays, many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, one novel, short fiction, essays, speeches, and letters. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), 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 directed almost 50 stage, television, and film productions and acted extensively in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.

Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts between ambivalent characters who struggle for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own versions of the past. Stylistically, these works are marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, irony, and menace. Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual identity oppressed by social forces, language, and vicissitudes of memory. In 1981, Pinter stated that he was not inclined to write plays explicitly about political subjects; yet in the mid 1980s he began writing overtly political plays. This "new direction" in his work and his left-wing political activism stimulated additional critical debate. Pinter, his work, and his politics have been the subject of voluminous critical commentary.

Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Tony Award for Best Play for The Homecoming in 1967, eight BAFTA awards for screenwriting and a BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, the French Légion d'honneur in 2007, and 20 honorary degrees. Festivals and symposia have been devoted to him and his work. In awarding Pinter the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005, the Swedish Academy noted: "Harold Pinter is generally seen as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century. That he occupies a position as a modern classic is illustrated by his name entering the language as an adjective used to describe a particular atmosphere and environment in drama: 'Pinteresque'."

Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2001, Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue, Krapp's Last Tape, for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006. He died from liver cancer on 24 December 2008. The following week he was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, in North West London.

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生日

1930年10月10日

其他稱謂

David Baron | Гарольд Пинтер

Harold Pinter的電影作品

年份	電影	職務
2023	Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story 飾演 Self (archive footage)	飾演 Self (archive footage)
2016	無人之境 Writer Theatre Play	Writer Theatre Play
2007	非常衝突 Screenplay 飾演 Man on T.V.	Screenplay 飾演 Man on T.V.
2007	Celebration Writer	Writer
2004	Under a False Name Thanks	Thanks
2001	巴拿馬裁縫飾演 Uncle Benny	飾演 Uncle Benny
2001	心靈病房飾演 Mr. Bearing	飾演 Mr. Bearing
1999	窈窕野淑女飾演 Sir Thomas Bertram	飾演 Sir Thomas Bertram
1997	Mojo 飾演 Sam Ross	飾演 Sam Ross
1995	Landscape 導演 Writer	導演 Writer
1993	The Trial Screenplay	Screenplay
1990	陌生人的慰藉 Screenplay	Screenplay
1990	使女的故事 Screenplay	Screenplay
1989	Reunion Screenplay	Screenplay
1971	幽情密使 Screenplay	Screenplay
1966	女諜玉嬌龍 Screenplay Co-Writer	Screenplay Co-Writer