PHILIP SAVILLE
DIRECTING
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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).
- Metroland1997
- The Gospel of John2003
- The Long Distance Piano Player1970
- The Fruit Machine1993
- Shadey1985
- Fellow Traveller1989
- Count Dracula1977
- Hamlet at Elsinore1964
- Family Pictures1993
- Mandela1987
- The Best House in London1969
- In Camera1964
- First Born1988
- The Biographer2002
- Boys from the Blackstuff1982
- Play for Today1970
- Count Dracula1977
- Out of the Unknown1965
- First Born1988
- The Buccaneers1995
- My Uncle Silas2001
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil1986