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Philip Saville

Actor / Film Director / Screenwriter / Film Producer / Television Director | * 10/28/1930 († 86, 12/22/2016) | London (United Kingdom (UK))
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". His work included 45 contributions to Armchair Theatre (1956–1972) and he won two Best Drama Series BAFTAs for Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Comedies

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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. ...

Mandela

Certification unknown

1987 | 2.2/5 | 2h 15min
TV Movie, Drama
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Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and u ...

Boys from the Blackstuff

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1982 | 3.9/5 | 50min per episode
Drama
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Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London s ...

The Buccaneers

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1995 | 3.1/5 | 55min per episode
Drama
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Ruth has everything. A large, warty body, a standard house in the suburbs, two whiney children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very ...

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

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1986 | 3.4/5 | 58min per episode
Drama
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Movies with Philip Saville as Actor(13)

as Mark Anthony1960 An Honourable Murder
as Chase1959 The Great Van Robbery
as Seppy1958 Three Crooked Men
as Bartel1957 The Betrayal
as Martin Scott1955 Contraband Spain
as Ben Jones1954 Bang! You're Dead
as Markheim1954 The Mirror and Markheim
as Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King1953 Murder at 3am
as Link Hunter1953 The Straw Man
as Dinner Guest1948 A Piece of Cake
as Slim, Police Car Driver1948 Penny and the Pownall Case
as Mainwaring's Junior1948 The Blind Goddess
as Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)1948 To the Public Danger

Movies with Philip Saville as Crew(44)

Directing/Director2009 Pinter's Progress
Directing/Director2003 The Gospel of John
Directing/Director2002 The Biographer
Directing/Director1997 Metroland
Directing/Director1997 Deacon Brodie
Directing/Director1993 Family Pictures
Directing/Director1993 Wall of Silence
Directing/Director1992 Angels
Directing/Director1992 The Cloning of Joanna May
Directing/Director1990 Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Directing/Director1990 Max and Helen
Directing/Director1989 Fellow Traveller
Directing/Director1988 First Born
Directing/Director1988 The Fruit Machine
Directing/Director1987 Mandela
Directing/Director1985 Shadey
Directing/Director1983 Those Glory Glory Days
Directing/Director1979 Design for Living
Directing/Director1977 Count Dracula
Directing/Director1976 Shuttlecock
Directing/Director1976 Meriel the Ghost Girl
Directing/Director1975 A Dream of Living
Directing/Director1975 Gangsters
Directing/Director1975 Moss
Directing/Director1973 Access to the Children
Directing/Director1972 In the Beautiful Caribbean
Directing/Director1971 Secrets
Writing/Story1971 Secrets
Directing/Director1971 The Fox Trot
Directing/Director1971 The Rainbirds
Directing/Director1971 O Fat White Woman
Directing/Director1970 The Long Distance Piano Player
Directing/Director1969 The Best House in London
Directing/Director1968 Oedipus the King
Directing/Director1966 Exit 19
Writing/Writer1966 Exit 19
Directing/Director1966 Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
Directing/Director1964 In Camera
Writing/Writer1964 In Camera
Directing/Director1964 Hamlet at Elsinore
Directing/Director1963 The Paradise Suite
Directing/Director1963 Living Image
Directing/Director1962 Afternoon of a Nymph
Directing/Director1960 A Night Out

TV Shows/Series with Philip Saville as Crew(10)

Directing/Director2002 Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Directing/Director2001 My Uncle Silas
Directing/Director1995 The Buccaneers
Production/Producer1995 The Buccaneers
Directing/Director1986 The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Directing/Director1982 Boys from the Blackstuff
Directing/Director1970 Play for Today
Directing/Director1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre
Directing/Director1965 Out of the Unknown
Directing/Director1964 The Wednesday Play

Full Name: Philip Saville
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Tuesday, 10/28 1930 (October) in London (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Thursday, 12/22 2016 (December) in Hampstead (aged: 86)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN)
Spouses (current/former): Jane Arden
Philip Saville frequently works together with these people:
Irene Shubik (7x, Crew)
Warren Mitchell (4x, Actor)
Hugh Whitemore (4x, Crew)
John Croydon (4x, Crew)
Alan Bridges (4x, Crew)
Alan Cooke (4x, Crew)
Hal Galili (4x, Actor)
John Gorrie (4x, Crew)
Graeme Hamilton (3x, Crew)
Harold Pinter (3x, Crew)
Anthony Newley (3x, Actor)
Leslie Bricusse (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:518246, Added: 10/08/2018, Last updated: 04/22/2024