Philip Saville
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 28, 1930
- Died
- December 22, 2016 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- London, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Discovering Hamlet
Movie · Director
Pinter's Progress
Movie · Director
The Gospel of John
Movie · Director
The Biographer
Movie · Director
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
TV · Director · 2 eps
My Uncle Silas
TV · Director · 7 eps
Metroland
Movie · Director
Little White Lies
Movie · Director
Deacon Brodie
Movie · Director
The Buccaneers
TV · Director · 5 eps
Wall of Silence
Movie · Director
Family Pictures
TV · Director · 2 eps
Angels
Movie · Director
The Cloning of Joanna May
TV · Director · 2 eps
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Movie · Director
Max and Helen
Movie · Director
Fellow Traveller
Movie · Director
Screen One
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Fruit Machine
Movie · Director
First Born
Movie · Director
First Born
TV · Director · 3 eps
Mandela
Movie · Director
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
TV · Director · 4 eps
Shadey
Movie · Director
Screen Two
TV · Director · 1 ep
Those Glory Glory Days
Movie · Director
Boys from the Blackstuff
TV · Director · 5 eps
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Movie · Director
Design for Living
Movie · Director
Sam's Song
Movie · Director
Rotten
Movie · Director
Count Dracula
Movie · Director
Cork and Bottle
Movie · Director
Count Dracula
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Velvet Glove
TV · Director · 1 ep
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Movie · Director
Shuttlecock
Movie · Director
Plays for Britain
TV · Director · 1 ep
Gangsters
Movie · Director
A Dream of Living
Movie · Director
Moss
Movie · Director
Private Affairs
TV · Director · 1 ep
Shades of Greene
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Actual Woman
Movie · Director
Playhouse
TV · Director · 2 eps
Churchill's People
TV · Director · 1 ep
Access to the Children
Movie · Director
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV · Director · 1 ep
Second City Firsts
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Creditors
Movie · Director
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Movie · Director
Secrets
Movie · Director
O Fat White Woman
Movie · Director
The Rainbirds
Movie · Director
The Fox Trot
Movie · Director
The Long Distance Piano Player
Movie · Director
Play for Today
TV · Director · 8 eps
The Best House in London
Movie · Director
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · Director · 1 ep
Oedipus the King
Movie · Director
ITV Playhouse
TV · Director · 1 ep
Stop the World — I Want to Get Off
Movie · Director
Exit 19
Movie · Director
The Machine Stops
Movie · Director
Five More
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Logic Game
Movie · Director
Out of the Unknown
TV · Director · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · Director · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · Director · 2 eps
Hamlet at Elsinore
Movie · Director
In Camera
Movie · Director
Prisoner and Escort
Movie · Director
The Wednesday Play
TV · Director · 2 eps
Six
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Movie · Director
The Paradise Suite
Movie · Director
Living Image
Movie · Director
Afternoon of a Nymph
Movie · Director
Night Conspirators
Movie · Director
A Night Out
Movie · Director
Armchair Mystery Theatre
TV · Director · 2 eps
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie · Director
Armchair Theatre
TV · Director · 38 eps