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Philip Saville

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British screenwriter (1930-2016)

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Philip Saville 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".

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Filmography 40

The Gospel of John2003 · ★ 7.6
Metroland1997 · ★ 5.8
Count Dracula1977
The Fruit Machine1988
Secrets1971
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 15011990
Mandela1987
The Best House in London1969
To the Public Danger1948
Oedipus the King1968
Those Glory Glory Days1983
Contraband Spain1955
The Blind Goddess1948
Shadey1985
Fellow Traveller1989
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off1966
In Camera1964
Penny and the Pownall Case1948
Hamlet at Elsinore1964
Little White Lies1998
Max and Helen1990
Bang! You're Dead1954
Murder at 3am1953
A Piece of Cake1948
The Great Van Robbery1959
Three Crooked Men1958
The Betrayal1957
Gangsters1975
An Honourable Murder1960
The Straw Man1953
Design for Living1979
Deacon Brodie1997
Discovering Hamlet2011
The Cloning of Joanna May1992
Access to the Children1973
The Machine Stops1966
The Biographer2002
Afternoon of a Nymph1962
The Fox Trot1971
The Rainbirds1971

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Television 24

Screen Two1985
Play for Today1970
BBC Play of the Month1965
ITV Playhouse1967
The Wednesday Play1964
Playhouse1974
Thirty-Minute Theatre1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969
Screen One1989
The Buccaneers1995
Out of the Unknown1965
Churchill's People1974
Boys from the Blackstuff1982
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries1973
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil1986
First Born1988
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale2002
Armchair Theatre1956
Armchair Mystery Theatre1960
Count Dracula1977
Second City Firsts1973
Family Pictures1993
Shades of Greene1975
My Uncle Silas2001

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Michael BatesAlso in The Fox Trot (1971)Ronald HarwoodAlso in Mandela (1987)Michael GothardAlso in The Machine Stops (1966)Per OscarssonAlso in Secrets (1971)Friedrich von LedeburAlso in Oedipus the King (1968)Alex NortonAlso in Deacon Brodie (1997)

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Philip Saville 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).

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1930 to 2016 · aged 86
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7 languages

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