Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter CH CBE (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 married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel, born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady Antonia Fraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1957. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. His early works were described by critics as "comedy of menace". Later plays such as No Man's Land (1975) and Betrayal (1978) became known as "memory plays". He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film. He also undertook a number of roles in works by other writers. He directed nearly 50 productions for stage, theatre and screen. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2001, Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tape, for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006. He died from liver cancer on 24 December 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harold Pinter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Harold Pinter
  • Popularity: 3.329
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1930-10-10
  • Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: David Baron, Гарольд Пинтер
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Harold Pinter Movies

  • 2001
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    The Tailor of Panama

    The Tailor of Panama

    6 2001 HD

    A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a...

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  • 1999
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    Mansfield Park

    Mansfield Park

    6.7 1999 HD

    When spirited young woman, Fanny Price is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper...

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  • 2007
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    Sleuth

    Sleuth

    6.2 2007 HD

    On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

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  • 1969
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    Last to Go

    Last to Go

    1 1969 HD

    The last of five animated shorts directed by Gerald Potterton for Pinter People, voiced by Harold Pinter and Donald Pleasence.

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  • 1963
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    The Servant

    The Servant

    7.602 1963 HD

    Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister...

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  • 2023
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    Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

    Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

    6.4 2023 HD

    The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his...

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  • 2001
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    Catastrophe

    Catastrophe

    6 2001 HD

    An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic...

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  • 1999
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    Against the War

    Against the War

    1 1999 HD

    Documentary arguing against the NATO bombing of Serbia and Kosovo

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  • 1964
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    The Caretaker

    The Caretaker

    7.2 1964 HD

    Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes...

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  • 1997
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    Mojo

    Mojo

    4.8 1997 HD

    The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead...

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  • 1976
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    Rogue Male

    Rogue Male

    6.5 1976 HD

    In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...

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  • 2007
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    Krapp's Last Tape

    Krapp's Last Tape

    1 2007 HD

    A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. KRAPPS LAST TAPE is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and...

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  • 1964
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    In Camera

    In Camera

    6 1964 HD

    A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."

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  • 2001
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    One for the Road

    One for the Road

    1 2001 HD

    2001 theatre production of Harold Pinter's one-act play considered his "statement about the human rights abuses of totalitarian governments."

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  • 2010
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    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    1 2010 HD

    In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National...

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  • 1997
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    Michael Redgrave: My Father

    Michael Redgrave: My Father

    1 1997 HD

    Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses...

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  • 2001
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    Wit

    Wit

    7.368 2001 HD

    A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

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  • 1967
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    Accident

    Accident

    6.2 1967 HD

    Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students,...

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  • 1981
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    Poets Against the Bomb

    Poets Against the Bomb

    1 1981 HD

    An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.

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  • 1985
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    Turtle Diary

    Turtle Diary

    6.6 1985 HD

    Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an...

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  • 1978
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    Langrishe, Go Down

    Langrishe, Go Down

    4.2 1978 HD

    In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate...

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  • 1996
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    Breaking the Code

    Breaking the Code

    5.4 1996 HD

    A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking...

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  • 1981
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    The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman

    The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman

    1 1981 HD

    1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter...

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  • 1967
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    The Basement

    The Basement

    1 1967 HD

    An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one...

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  • 1987
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    The Birthday Party

    The Birthday Party

    6.7 1987 HD

    It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production broadcast on the Theatre Night series.]

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  • 2006
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    Art, Truth and Politics

    Art, Truth and Politics

    1 2006 HD

    Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and...

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  • 1970
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    The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

    The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

    6 1970 HD

    Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into...

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  • 1960
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    A Night Out

    A Night Out

    1 1960 HD

    Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.

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  • 1962
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    This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker

    This Week in Britain #199: The Caretaker

    1 1962 HD

    ‘This week in Britain’ was one of a series of magazine films or Cinemagazines produced by the COI for consumption abroad to promote...

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  • 2007
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    Sleuth

    Sleuth

    6.2 2007 HD

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  • 1990
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    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    6.1 1990 HD

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  • 2011
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    Talk Show

    Talk Show

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2019
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    The Collection

    The Collection

    1 2019 HD

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  • 1981
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    6.4 1981 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Go-Between

    The Go-Between

    6.788 1971 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Last Tycoon

    The Last Tycoon

    6.35 1976 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Pumpkin Eater

    The Pumpkin Eater

    6.7 1964 HD

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  • 1989
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    Reunion

    Reunion

    6.3 1989 HD

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  • 1967
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    Accident

    Accident

    6.2 1967 HD

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  • 1999
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    Against the War

    Against the War

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    The Dumb Waiter

    The Dumb Waiter

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Caretaker

    The Caretaker

    7.2 1964 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming

    5.8 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Butley

    Butley

    6.3 1974 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Collection

    The Collection

    5.7 1976 HD

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  • 1987
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    Basements

    Basements

    7.7 1987 HD

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  • 1983
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    Betrayal

    Betrayal

    6 1983 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Lover

    The Lover

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1965
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    Tea Party

    Tea Party

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1978
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    No Man's Land

    No Man's Land

    7 1978 HD

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  • 1984
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    A Kind of Alaska

    A Kind of Alaska

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2007
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    Celebration

    Celebration

    6.3 2007 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Dwarfs

    The Dwarfs

    4.7 2002 HD

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  • 1985
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    One for the Road

    One for the Road

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1991
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    Old Times

    Old Times

    5 1991 HD

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  • 1995
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    Landscape

    Landscape

    10 1995 HD

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  • 1995
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    Landscape

    Landscape

    10 1995 HD

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  • 2016
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    National Theatre Live: No Man's Land

    National Theatre Live: No Man's Land

    7.8 2016 HD

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  • 2003
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    Victoria Station

    Victoria Station

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1993
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    The Trial

    The Trial

    5.8 1993 HD

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  • 1969
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    Last to Go

    Last to Go

    1 1969 HD

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  • 2019
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    The New World Order

    The New World Order

    9 2019 HD

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  • 1990
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    The Comfort of Strangers

    The Comfort of Strangers

    5.8 1990 HD

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  • 2016
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    A Walk By Waiting

    A Walk By Waiting

    1 2016 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Birthday Party

    The Birthday Party

    6.3 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Birthday Party

    The Birthday Party

    6.3 1968 HD

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  • 1978
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    Die Geburtstagsfeier

    Die Geburtstagsfeier

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1985
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    Turtle Diary

    Turtle Diary

    6.6 1985 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Quiller Memorandum

    The Quiller Memorandum

    5.7 1966 HD

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  • 1978
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    Langrishe, Go Down

    Langrishe, Go Down

    4.2 1978 HD

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  • 2010
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    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2004
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    The Caretaker

    The Caretaker

    1 2004 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Dumb Waiter

    The Dumb Waiter

    1 1961 HD

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  • 2007
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    Le gardien

    Le gardien

    1 2007 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Servant

    The Servant

    7.602 1963 HD

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  • 1960
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    A Night Out

    A Night Out

    1 1960 HD

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  • 2024
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    Retrógrado

    Retrógrado

    1 2024 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Caretaker

    The Caretaker

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1967
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    A Slight Ache

    A Slight Ache

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    A Night Out

    A Night Out

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Basement

    The Basement

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1983
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    Landscape

    Landscape

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1975
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    Old Times

    Old Times

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1973
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    Monologue

    Monologue

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1982
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    The Hothouse

    The Hothouse

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1982
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    The Hothouse

    The Hothouse

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1988
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    Mountain Language

    Mountain Language

    4 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Mountain Language

    Mountain Language

    4 1988 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Birthday Party

    The Birthday Party

    6.7 1987 HD

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  • 1989
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    The Heat of the Day

    The Heat of the Day

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming

    5.8 1973 HD

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  • 1992
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    Party Time

    Party Time

    5 1992 HD

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  • 1992
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    Party Time

    Party Time

    5 1992 HD

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  • 2006
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    Art, Truth and Politics

    Art, Truth and Politics

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Dumb Waiter

    The Dumb Waiter

    8 1985 HD

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  • 1960
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    Night School

    Night School

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Collection

    The Collection

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1963
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    Kolleksjonen

    Kolleksjonen

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1966
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    Modesty Blaise

    Modesty Blaise

    5.2 1966 HD

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  • 1978
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    The South Bank Show

    The South Bank Show

    5.3 1978 HD

    The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May...

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  • 2004
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    The Culture Show

    The Culture Show

    6 2004 HD

    A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more.

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1967
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    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

    1 1967 HD

    An attempt by NBC to emulate the success of the CBS hit The Twilight Zone, this hour-long anthology series showcased different actors, stories and...

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  • 1970
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    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

    6.667 1970 HD

    Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50...

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  • 1970
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    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

    7 1970 HD

    Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of...

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  • 1970
    imgS4 E1

    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

    1 1970 HD

    An attempt by NBC to emulate the success of the CBS hit The Twilight Zone, this hour-long anthology series showcased different actors, stories and...

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  • 1970
    imgS5 E4

    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

    1 1970 HD

    A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

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  • 1970
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    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

    5 1970 HD

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