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Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008)
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Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.
Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing national service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he m
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Caine finally gets chance to work in Pinter movie
It was Jude Law’s idea to revive the 1972 film “Sleuth,” to give it new life with a new writer, director and cast.
Well, not an entirely new cast.
The original film had a script by Anthony Shaffer, who based it on his own play, was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starred Laurence Olivier as a cuckolded husband, and Michael Caine as the cocky young fellow who intended to steal his wife.
The new one has a script by Harold Pinter, is directed by Kenneth Branagh, and stars Jude Law as the young man and Michael Caine as the man with marital problems. The acting choice is a happy coincidence since Law had the lead in the 2004 remake of “Alfie,” the 1966 film that made Caine a star.
“Jude and I are friends, and we were having dinner,” says Caine, “and he said, ‘I’m trying to get Harold Pinter to rewrite ‘Sleuth’ — are you interested?’ And I said sure I was, since he mentioned Pinter. So I just said yes, and finished my dinner.”
That mention of Pinter turned out to be something Caine, 74, had been waiting for throughout most of his career.
“When I was very young, I was friends with Harold Pinter, who was an actor called David Barron at the time,” explains Caine. “He decided to write a play under his own real name: Harold P
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The cinematic sure of Harold Pinter
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