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. 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). Saville has been called one of the UK's top 100 directors of all time. He is active in film and television as of 2006, and has a masterclass studio in London specializing in dramatic improvisation. Philip Saville has recently completed a special documentary on Harold Pinter Pinter's Progress for Sundance international television channels and UK's Sky Arts. Saville is currently developing further arts programming with Sundance and British TV company 3DD Productions including Discovering Hamlet now in production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Night of the Full Moon
(Dale Merritt)
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
(Self)
Murder at 3am
(Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King)
The Great Van Robbery
(Chase)
The Betrayal
(Bartel)
A Piece of Cake
(Dinner Guest)
The Straw Man
(Link Hunter)
An Honourable Murder
(Mark Anthony)
Three Crooked Men
(Seppy)
Bang! You're Dead
(Ben Jones)
The Blind Goddess
(Mainwaring's Junior)
To the Public Danger
(Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited))
Contraband Spain
(Martin Scott)
Penny and the Pownall Case
(Slim, Police Car Driver)
The Mirror and Markheim
(Markheim)
Metroland
(Director)
The Gospel of John
(Director)
The Fruit Machine
(Director)
The Creditors
(Writer)
The Madhouse on Castle Street
(Director)
The Madhouse on Castle Street
(Producer)
Pinter's Progress
(Director)
Design for Living
(Director)
Discovering Hamlet
(Director)
Meriel the Ghost Girl
(Director)
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
(Director)
Shadey
(Director)
Secrets
(Director)
Secrets
(Story)
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
(Director)
Fellow Traveller
(Director)
Count Dracula
(Director)
Hamlet at Elsinore
(Director)
Mandela
(Director)
The Best House in London
(Director)
Family Pictures
(Director)
Those Glory Glory Days
(Director)
O Fat White Woman
(Director)
The Long Distance Piano Player
(Director)
In Camera
(Director)
In Camera
(Writer)
Oedipus the King
(Screenplay)
Rotten
(Director)
The Actual Woman
(Director)
Gangsters
(Director)
The Paradise Suite
(Director)
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
(Director)
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
(Writer)
Afternoon of a Nymph
(Director)
Living Image
(Director)
Exit 19
(Director)
Exit 19
(Writer)
A Dream of Living
(Director)
The Creditors
(Director)
The Cloning of Joanna May
(Director)
Deacon Brodie
(Director)
Oedipus the King
(Director)
Cork and Bottle
(Director)
Prisoner and Escort
(Director)
The Machine Stops
(Director)
Little White Lies
(Director)
The Logic Game
(Director)
The Logic Game
(Writer)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Director)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Producer)
A Night Out
(Director)
The Rainbirds
(Director)
The Fox Trot
(Director)
In the Beautiful Caribbean
(Director)
Access to the Children
(Director)
Moss
(Director)
Angels
(Director)
Wall of Silence
(Director)
First Born
(Director)
Max and Helen
(Director)
The Biographer
(Director)
Shuttlecock
(Director)
Sam's Song
(Director)
Boys from the Blackstuff
(Director)
Out of the Unknown
(Director)
Play for Today
(Director)
Count Dracula
(Director)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
(Director)
First Born
(Director)
The Buccaneers
(Director)
The Buccaneers
(Producer)
My Uncle Silas
(Director)
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
(Director)
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
(Director)