Harold Pinter Archives | Memorable TV

Rogue Male (BBC2 Drama, Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim)

Rogue Male was a wartime drama based on the popular novel by Geoffrey Household. Just before the start of World War II an upper class Englishman...

TV2 years ago

The Wednesday Play: In Camera (BBC Drama, Harold Pinter)

Original Publicity: Tonight’s Play – In Camera: “Hell,” says Jean-Paul Sartre, “is other people”, and in tonight’s play he sets out to demonstrate this hypothesis. In...

TV3 years ago

Play of the Week (BBC Two 1977-1979)

Play of the Week was a BBC Two anthology of high profile single dramas. Often shot on film and featuring top of the line talent in...

TV4 years ago

Breaking the Code (BBC-1 1996, Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong)

Period drama. The story Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who turned the course of World War II by cracking the German Enigma code. The same story...

TV4 years ago

No Man’s Land (ITV 1978, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson)

In Harold Pinter play No Man’s Land a famous writer and a poet discover they have something in common. The production offers up a fabulous chance...

Movies4 years ago

Modesty Blaise (1966, Dirk Bogarde, Monica Vitti)

In this tongue-in-cheek pop art meets the Avenger’s-esque espionage flick glamorous Modesty Blaise is called in by HM Government to protect a consignment of diamonds destined...

Movies4 years ago

Go-Between, The (Columbia 1971, Julie Christie, Alan Bates)

Bittersweet romantic drama The Go-Between, equal parts love story and reflection on British class differences, stars Michael Redgrave as a middle-aged man in reverie of his...

Movies5 years ago

Tailor of Panama, The (2001, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush)

In contemporary Panama, Londoner Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush) lives in exile, plying his trade as a bespoke tailor to the country’s most influential families when he...

Movies5 years ago

Quiller Memorandum, The (1966, Alec Guinness, George Segal,

Intelligent, atmospheric spy thriller The Quiller Memorandum is adapted by Harold Pinter from Adam Hall’s best-selling novel, starring George Segal, Alec Guinness and Max von Sydow....

Features7 years ago

Classic TV Revisited: The Dick Emery Show

The many faces, male and female, of comedian Dick Emery. Who were the principal characters? Maybe because he was married five times, Dick Emery was particularly...

TV7 years ago

Basement, The (Theatre 625 BBC-1 1967 with Harold Pinter and Derek Markham)

UK / BBC-1 / 1×55 / Broadcast 20 February 1967 Writer: Harold Pinter / Producer: Michael Bakewell / Director: Charles Jarrott Series: Theatre 625 Drama. The...

TV7 years ago

Langrishe Go Down (BBC 1978 with Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons)

In one off drama Langrishe Go Down, broadcast under the Play of the Week banner, three spinster sisters face up to changes in their lives sparked...

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