--- name: "Harold Pinter" canonical: "https://film.one/person/harold-pinter" fi1m_id: "harold-pinter" imdb_id: "nm0056217" tmdb_id: 26157 wikidata_id: "Q41042" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 October 1930" died: "24 December 2008" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T14:50:50.990441+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Harold Pinter ## Identity Harold Pinter - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harold-pinter - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** harold-pinter - **IMDb ID:** nm0056217 - **TMDB ID:** 26157 - **Wikidata ID:** Q41042 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41042, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056217/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26157 Actor. Born 10 October 1930 in Hackney, London, England, UK. Died 24 December 2008. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 October 1930, Hackney, London, England, UK - **Died:** 24 December 2008 - **Also known as:** David Baron, Гарольд Пинтер - **BAFTA Film Awards:** 1 BAFTA (1 won) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41042, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056217/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26157 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Servant*](https://film.one/film/the-servant.md) (89) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Born on 10 October 1930 in Hackney, London, he died on 24 December 2008. He wrote the screenplay for *The Servant* (1963), directed by Joseph Losey, and appeared in the film as a society man in a restaurant scene. Other screenplays include *Accident* (1967), *The Go-Between* (1971), *The French Lieutenant's Woman* (1981), *The Handmaid's Tale* (1990) and *Sleuth* (2007). He also adapted several of his own plays for the screen. Pinter received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. His plays include *The Birthday Party* (1957), *The Homecoming* (1964) and *Betrayal* (1978). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, screenonline.org.uk.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Servant* (1963), Fi1m 89, as People in Restaurant: Society Man — [page](https://film.one/film/the-servant.md) ## Complete filmography (93) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Retrógrado* (2024), Original Story - *The Collection* (2019), Writer - *The New World Order* (2019), Writer - *National Theatre Live: No Man's Land* (2016), Theatre Play - *A Walk By Waiting* (2016), Writer - *Talk Show* (2011), Theatre Play - *Harold Pinter: A Celebration* (2010), Writer - *Sleuth* (2007), as Man on T.V. · Screenplay - *Krapp's Last Tape* (2007), as Krapp / Self (Introduction) - *Celebration* (2007), Writer - *Working with Pinter* (2007), Writer - *Le Gardien* (2007), Author - *Art, Truth and Politics* (2005), Writer - *Under a False Name* (2004), Thanks - *The Caretaker* (2004), Author - *Victoria Station* (2003), Writer - *The Dwarfs* (2002), Writer - *Catastrophe* (2001), as The Director - *One for the Road* (2001), as Nicolas - *The Tailor of Panama* (2001), as Uncle Benny - *Wit* (2001), as Mr. Bearing - *Mansfield Park* (1999), as Sir Thomas Bertram - *Against the War* (1999), Writer - *The Dumb Waiter* (1999), Writer - *Mojo* (1997), as Sam Ross - *Breaking the Code* (1996), as John Smith - *Landscape* (1995), Director, Writer - *The Trial* (1993), Screenplay - *Party Time* (1992), Screenplay, Director - *Old Times* (1991), Writer - *Performance* (1991), series, Writer, Director - *The Comfort of Strangers* (1990), Screenplay - *The Handmaid's Tale* (1990), Screenplay - *The Heat of the Day* (1989), Writer - *Reunion* (1989), Screenplay - *Mountain Language* (1988), Director, Writer - *The Birthday Party* (1987), as Nat Goldberg · Writer - *Basements* (1987), Writer - *Turtle Diary* (1985), Man in Bookshop, Screenplay - *Theatre Night* (1985), series, as Goldberg · Theatre Play - *One for the Road* (1985), Writer - *The Dumb Waiter* (1985), Writer - *Screen Two* (1985), series, Screenplay - *A Kind of Alaska* (1984), Writer - *Betrayal* (1983), Writer - *Landscape* (1983), Writer - *The Hothouse* (1982), Director, Writer - *Poets Against the Bomb* (1981), Actor - *The French Lieutenant's Woman* (1981), Screenplay - *The Caretaker* (1981), Writer - *The Rear Column* (1980), Director - *No Man's Land* (1978), Writer - *Langrishe, Go Down* (1978), as Barry Shannon · Screenplay - *Do You Remember?* (1978), series, Writer - *Die Geburtstagsfeier* (1978), Director - *BBC2 Play of the Week* (1977), series, as Barry Shannon · Writer - *Laurence Olivier Presents* (1976), series, Writer - *Teatro Estudio* (1976), series, Writer - *The Last Tycoon* (1976), Screenplay - *Rogue Male* (1976), as Saul Abrahams - *The Collection* (1976), Screenplay - *Old Times* (1975), Writer - *Arena* (1975), series, Writer - *Butley* (1974), Director - *The Homecoming* (1973), Screenplay, Theatre Play - *Monologue* (1973), Writer - *Birthday* (1973), Writer - *The Go-Between* (1971), Screenplay - *The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer* (1970), as Steven Hench - *Last to Go* (1969), Writer - *The Birthday Party* (1968), Screenplay, Theatre Play - *The Basement* (1967), as Stott · Writer - *NBC Experiment in Television* (1967), series, Writer - *A Night Out* (1967), Writer - *Accident* (1967), Bell - TV Producer, Screenplay - *A Slight Ache* (1967), Writer - *The Quiller Memorandum* (1966), Screenplay - *Modesty Blaise* (1966), Co-Writer - *Tea Party* (1965), Writer - *In Camera* (1964), as Garcin - *The Wednesday Play* (1964), series, as Garcin - *The Pumpkin Eater* (1964), Screenplay - *Theatre 625* (1964), series, as Stott · Writer - *The Caretaker* (1964), as Man · Writer - *Kolleksjonen* (1963), Author - *The Servant* (1963), as People in Restaurant: Society Man · Screenplay — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-servant.md) - *The Lover* (1963), Writer - *Playdate* (1961), series, Writer - *The Dumb Waiter* (1961), Writer - *Night School* (1960), Writer - *A Night Out* (1960), as Seeley · Writer - *The Collection*, Writer - *The Servant*, Original Film Writer ## Gallery - ![Harold Pinter](https://film.one/media/person/3909062/gallery-1cdf4948095b.jpg) Harold Pinter — Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Harold_Pinter_1962.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Harold Pinter](https://film.one/media/person/3909062/gallery-8d5965cdee27.jpg) Harold Pinter — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated - 1984: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Betrayal* - 1982: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The French Lieutenant's Woman* ### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won - 1965: Best British Screenplay (won), for *The Pumpkin Eater* ### Other awards — 5 won, 2 nominated - Europe Theatre Prize 2006: Europe Theatre Prize (won) - Franz Kafka Prize 2005: Franz Kafka Prize (won) - Nobel Prize in Literature 2005: Nobel Prize in Literature (won) - America Award in Literature 1995: America Award in Literature (won) - Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1973: Austrian State Prize for European Literature (won) - Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play 1969: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominated) - Tony Award for Best Play 1962: Tony Award for Best Play (nominated), for *The Caretaker* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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