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).
- Metroland 1997
- The Gospel of John 2003
- The Fruit Machine 1988
- Shadey 1985
- Fellow Traveller 1989
- Count Dracula 1977
- Hamlet at Elsinore 1964
- Mandela 1987
- The Best House in London 1969
- Family Pictures 1993
- The Long Distance Piano Player 1970
- In Camera 1964
- Gangsters 1975
- The Machine Stops 1966
- First Born 1988
- The Biographer 2002
- Boys from the Blackstuff 1982
- Out of the Unknown 1965
- Play for Today 1970
- Count Dracula 1977
- First Born 1988
- The Buccaneers 1995
- My Uncle Silas 2001
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil 1986