Philip Saville

Philip Saville

Рождение : 1930-10-28, London, UK

Смерть : 2016-12-22

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.

Профиль

Philip Saville

Фильмы

Discovering Hamlet
Director
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
Pinter's Progress
Director
A personal take on working with Harold Pinter via intimate conversations with actors, directors and writers who share their experiences of the man and his work.
Евангелие от Иоанна
Director
История жизни Иисуса, описанная его учеником Иоанном…
The Biographer
Director
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.
Метролэнд
Director
После долгого отсутствия Тони, лучший друг Криса, внезапно появляется в Лондоне, переворачивая спокойную и скучную жизнь Криса с ног на голову. Крис вспоминает свою беспечную молодость в Париже, где он жил и работал фотографом, а также встретил женщину своей мечты…
Deacon Brodie
Director
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 Deacon Brodie a master cabinet maker and town councillor is a rogue and a hedonist. He steals money but gives it back. He attempts to steal a fortune from the city's Customs and Excise office but the attempt fails and he is caught. There is a widely-publicised trial and he is sentenced to death to be hanged on the gallows he designed.
Wall of Silence
Director
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.
Family Pictures
Director
Nina Eberlin comes home to visit her now-divorced parents and while looking through a collection of pictures taken by her father and herself, she reflects on how the pictures illustrate the nature of families. She begins to tell the story of how her parents discovered their son Randall was autistic and how each reacted to that. Her mother had three more kids, all daughters, "the perfect children." The controversy over that and Randall's treatment pulls the parents apart. It also forces Nina and her older brother Mack to re-evaluate their relationship with each other and each parent.
Angels
Director
Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
The Cloning of Joanna May
Director
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Director
Diane and Greg Halstead were once happily married, even deciding to try and have a baby in later years, despite the fact that she had already suffered two miscarriages. She has no luck in becoming pregnant and this leads to an estrangement from her husband. On his latest flight, Greg, a professional pilot, finds out about a bomb threat. The person carrying the bomb supposedly wants to kill another passenger, a politician with an outspoken opinion on abortion. Unknown to the killer, however, the politician has already left the plane because it had an hour and a half delay. Greg decides to make an emergency landing in Dayton, Ohio, but during the heavy weather, the plane crashes, killing almost everyone on board.
Max and Helen
Director
In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated by the war.
Fellow Traveller
Director
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
First Born
Director
Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He hides the results of the experiment, adopting the child, and helps Gor to speak and blend into society. But Gor can't help being what he is, and tragedy and revelations are the ultimate result.
Страна чудес
Director
16-летний Эдди сбегает из дома, где его постоянно унижал отец. Со своим другом Майклом (они оба геи) они на гей-дискотеке под названием «Фруктовый автомат» видят как киллер убивает хозяина дискотеки. Они убегают, но киллер преследует их... При этом денег у них нет, приходится подрабатывать. Один из них не гнушается секса с пожилым мужиком. Фильм построен на хитрости одного и простоватости другого.
Mandela
Director
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Shadey
Director
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.
Those Glory Glory Days
Director
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool, prepares to meet her brother-in-law - a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years later she is interviewed on television about her life. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Writer
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool, prepares to meet her brother-in-law - a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years later she is interviewed on television about her life. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Director
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool, prepares to meet her brother-in-law - a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years later she is interviewed on television about her life. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.
Design for Living
Director
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo. Set in Paris, Otto and Leo both fall in love with Gilda. She cannot make up her mind which man she loves, so the three decide to live together in a platonic friendship. Among Coward's trademark sparkling wit, the play explores deeper themes including infidelity, the pressures of fame on an unstable mind, and morality (or immorality) of a menage a trois.
Rotten
Director
Two extraordinary days in the life of young Beatles-fan Kevin - as he drifts in space between yesterday and today.
Дракула
Director
Конец XIX века, Лондон. Молодой юрист Джонатан и красивая девушка Мина любят друг друга. Джонатан по делам уезжает в Трансильванию, к графу Дракуле, желающему приобрести недвижимость в столице Англии. Но Джонатан не знает, кто такой Дракула на самом деле
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Director
Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?
Shuttlecock
Director
Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...
Moss
Director
TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser who only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".
A Dream of Living
Director
A play that looks at the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and Ernest Hemmingway in 1925 Paris. This dramatization brings to life the personalities of Scott and Zelda as well as the time period that produced “The Great Gatsby.”
Gangsters
Director
Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war. Movie screened as part of Play of Today.
The Actual Woman
Director
A winter's day out is a treat for all, but it isnt' quite what Uncle Alec wanted.
Access to the Children
Director
A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays, which they usually spend at the zoo.
The Creditors
Director
Gustave meets Adolph who tries to show him that Gustave’s fiancée doesn’t love him.
The Creditors
Writer
Gustave meets Adolph who tries to show him that Gustave’s fiancée doesn’t love him.
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Director
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
O Fat White Woman
Director
The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Secrets
Story
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
Secrets
Director
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
The Fox Trot
Director
The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When Tom, an old friend, returns from voyaging the world their life takes a strange new turn.
The Fox Trot
Director
An odd ménage à trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband.
The Rainbirds
Director
After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
The Long Distance Piano Player
Director
The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.
The Best House in London
Director
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Oedipus the King
Director
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Exit 19
Writer
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
Exit 19
Director
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
Director
The Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse London and Broadway musical hit Stop the World, I Want to Get Off is given literal treatment in this filmization. Newley stars as Littlechap, whose allegorical rise to success is countered by the instability of his private life. Like the play, the film is staged impressionistically, with Newley decked out in mime makeup and periodically stopping the action to address the audience, and with all the women in his life -- German, American and "Typically English" -- played by a single actress (Millicent Martin, taking over from the stage version's Anna Quayle). In Wizard of Oz fashion, the play itself is lensed in color, while the brief prologue, showing the actors preparing for their performance, is in black-and-white. The production includes such standards (and perennial audition pieces) as What Kind of Fool Am I? and Gonna Build a Mountain.
The Logic Game
Writer
The private entertainment of a married couple, springing from and interwoven with the pattern of their daily life.
The Logic Game
Director
The private entertainment of a married couple, springing from and interwoven with the pattern of their daily life.
In Camera
Writer
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
In Camera
Director
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
Hamlet at Elsinore
Director
Christopher Plummer is joined by an all-star cast including Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Roy Kinnear and Donald Sutherland in this historic production of Hamlet filmed on location at Elsinore, Denmark, the actual location where the play is set.
Living Image
Director
A renowned artist of the old school has his whole world turned upside down when his son, a young radical, and his associates bring modern interpretations of art into his life.
The Paradise Suite
Director
A troubled actress has conversations with a range of different people.
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Producer
A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Director
A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.
Afternoon of a Nymph
Director
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay...
A Night Out
Director
Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.
An Honourable Murder
Mark Anthony
A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
The Great Van Robbery
Chase
Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
Three Crooked Men
Seppy
Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.
The Betrayal
Bartel
Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
Contraband Spain
Martin Scott
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
Bang! You're Dead
Ben Jones
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...
The Night of the Full Moon
Dale Merritt
Story of how American secret agent pursued by enemy agents, hides out at remote English farm
The Mirror and Markheim
Markheim
Based on a short gothic horror story “Markheim” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Straw Man
Link Hunter
A newly married man is convicted of murdering a former lover in his apartment, and sentenced to hang. With a payout on his life worth 20,000 pounds, the insurance company sends an investigator to find out the truth.
Murder at 3am
Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
A Piece of Cake
Dinner Guest
Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but depriving them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble.
The Blind Goddess
Mainwaring's Junior
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
To the Public Danger
Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
Penny and the Pownall Case
Slim, Police Car Driver
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.