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Philip Saville (28 October 1927 – 22 December 2016) was a British director, screenwriter and former actor whose career lasted half a century. The British Film Institute's Screenonline website described Saville as "one of Britain's most prolific and pioneering television and film directors".
Philip Saville was born on 28 October 1930 in London, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986) and The Buccaneers (1995). He was married to Nina Zuckerman and Jane Arden. He died on 22 December 2016 in Hampstead, Camden, London, England, UK.
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Philip Saville. Director, Actor, Writer. 28 December 1930 to 22 December 2016. A British director, actor and writer whose breakthrough came with a successful TV production of Harold Pinter’s A Night Out (1960), one of Saville’s 45 contributions to Armchair Theatre (1956-1972).
Dec 22, 2016 · Biography. 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.
Oedipus the King is a 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex, directed and co-written by Philip Saville. It stars Christopher Plummer as the title character , Orson Welles as Tiresias , Lilli Palmer as Jocasta , Richard Johnson as Creon and Donald Sutherland as the leading member of the Chorus , though the latter's ...
Feb 17, 2017 · Philip Saville,who has died aged 86, directed two of the most notable television dramas of the 1980s, Alan Bleasdale’s bleakly compulsive series Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) and The Life...
Philip Saville is one of Britain's most prolific and pioneering television and film directors. Having started out as an actor, his television career in Britain continued behind the cameras in 1955. His early work at Associated Rediffusion contributing to comedy programmes with Richard Lester proved a false start and he soon left to join ABC.
