
Philip Saville
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.
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Acting (13 movies)

The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981

Murder at 3am
1953

The Great Van Robbery
1959

The Betrayal
1957

A Piece of Cake
1948

The Straw Man
1953

Three Crooked Men
1958

Bang! You're Dead
1954

The Blind Goddess
1948

To the Public Danger
1948

Contraband Spain
1955

Penny and the Pownall Case
1948

The Mirror and Markheim
1954
Directing (55 movies)

Metroland
1997

The Gospel of John
2003

The Fruit Machine
1988

The Madhouse on Castle Street
1963

Pinter's Progress
2009

Design for Living
1979

Discovering Hamlet
2011

Meriel the Ghost Girl
1976

Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
1990

Shadey
1985

Secrets
1971

Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
1966

Fellow Traveller
1989

Count Dracula
1977

Hamlet at Elsinore
1964

Mandela
1987

The Best House in London
1969

Family Pictures
1993

Those Glory Glory Days
1983

O Fat White Woman
1971
The Long Distance Piano Player
1970

In Camera
1964

Rotten
1978

The Actual Woman
1974

Gangsters
1975
The Paradise Suite
1963

The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981

Living Image
1963

Afternoon of a Nymph
1962

Exit 19
1966
A Dream of Living
1975

The Creditors
1972

The Cloning of Joanna May
1992

Deacon Brodie
1997

Oedipus the King
1968
Cork and Bottle
1977
Prisoner and Escort
1964

The Machine Stops
1966

Little White Lies
1998
The Logic Game
1965
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1956

A Night Out
1960

In the Beautiful Caribbean
1972

The Rainbirds
1971

The Fox Trot
1971

Access to the Children
1973

Moss
1975

Angels
1992

Wall of Silence
1993

First Born
1988

Max and Helen
1990

The Biographer
2002

Shuttlecock
1976
Sam's Song
1979

Night Conspirators
1962
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1956 | Producer |
| The Madhouse on Castle Street | 1963 | Producer |
| In Camera | 1964 | Writer |
| The Logic Game | 1965 | Writer |
| Exit 19 | 1966 | Writer |
| Oedipus the King | 1968 | Screenplay |
| The Creditors | 1972 | Writer |
| The Journal of Bridget Hitler | 1981 | Writer |