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  • Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection
  • Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection review by from Greater London
    Rated - 4 stars You just can't get the staff these days 25 March 2004
    ... film, released in that year, things very quickly began to get out of hand. Harold Pinter scripts this tale of an upper class businessman Tony (James Fox) who hires a ma...  
  • Butley
  • Butley review by from I wish I knew-don't we all!?
    Rated - 5 stars Bates pulls it off! 19 December 2004
    ...ibly witty script is skillfully translated to celluloid by acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter in the director's chair.Bates is ably assisted by excellent supporting preforma...  
  • Accident
  • Accident review by Zamy from London
    Rated - 0 stars Accident 1 May 2009
    ...This is the second of the three collaborations between Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter in the 1960's and in my view is probably the least successful; although the style is si...  

Harold Pinter - filmography


  • The Tailor Of Panama on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Geoffrey Rush,  Jamie Lee Curtis
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,809 member
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  • Butley on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Alan Bates,  Jessica Tandy,  Georgina Hale
    Director: Harold Pinter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This adaptation of Simon Gray's BUTLEY was part of the American Film Theatre series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Alan Bates stars as Ben Butley, a bitter and repressed English literature professor ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 240 members
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  • The Blue Lamp on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Harold Pinter,  Jack Warner,  Sylvia Sims
    Director: Basil Dearden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by small-time delinquents Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 148 members
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  • Harold Pinter: Art, Truth And Politics
    Starring: Harold Pinter
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    In late 2005 Harold Pinter videotaped a lecture on the occasion of him being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His speech, delivered directly to camera, is a complex reflection on his own writing and an excoriating attack on the foreign policy of a "brutal, ruthless and scornful" United ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 10 members
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Harold Pinter facts

5 most recent films

The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer - 3.5 stars
Beckett On Film - 3.5 stars
The Tailor Of Panama - 3.0 stars
Mansfield Park - 3.0 stars
Butley - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Servant - 4.0 stars
Hunted - 3.5 stars
The Blue Lamp - 3.5 stars
Victim - 3.5 stars
The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Sleeping Tiger - 3.0 stars
Rogue Male - 3.5 stars
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth And Politics - 3.5 stars
The Tailor Of Panama - 3.0 stars
Butley - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stanley Baker - 8 times - show films
Leo McKern - 8 times - show films
Vivien Merchant - 8 times - show films
Dirk Bogarde - 8 times - show films
Sarah Miles - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Basil Dearden - 8 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 3 times - show films
Charles Crichton - 1 times - show films
John Boorman - 1 times - show films
none - 1 times - show films