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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). 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.
Most Popular Philip Saville Trailers
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15 March 1954
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist.
01 September 1992
Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
08 August 1966
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
20 March 1993
Nina Eberlin comes home to visit her now-divorced parents and while looking through a collection of pictures taken by her father and herself, she reflects on how the pictures illustrate the nature of families.
16 January 1959
Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
29 September 1989
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol.
18 November 1990
Diane and Greg Halstead were once happily married, even deciding to try and have a baby in later years, despite the fact that she had already suffered two miscarriages.
14 September 1948
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
13 May 1978
Two extraordinary days in the life of young Beatles-fan Kevin - as he drifts in space between yesterday and today.
04 November 1988
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
01 January 1969
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
11 February 1971
After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
11 September 2003
A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.
17 October 1993
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.
04 November 1964
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
05 March 1973
A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays, which they usually spend at the zoo.
21 September 1971
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
31 March 1960
A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
30 September 1962
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom.
01 November 2011
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life.
29 April 1971
The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth.
22 December 1977
Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature.
08 March 1997
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 Deacon Brodie a master cabinet maker and town councillor is a rogue and a hedonist.
01 January 1954
Story of how American secret agent pursued by enemy agents, hides out at remote English farm
01 September 1948
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking.
01 July 1953
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
17 November 1983
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double".
24 February 1963
A troubled actress has conversations with a range of different people.
03 February 1972
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
15 October 1970
The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.
16 January 1992
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair.
01 January 1954
Based on a short gothic horror story “Markheim” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
11 March 1974
A winter's day out is a treat for all, but it isnt' quite what Uncle Alec wanted.
31 May 1985
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.
30 October 1988
Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid.
01 January 1965
The private entertainment of a married couple, springing from and interwoven with the pattern of their daily life.
01 June 1968
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
01 September 2002
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.
18 August 1963
A renowned artist of the old school has his whole world turned upside down when his son, a young radical, and his associates bring modern interpretations of art into his life.
08 January 1990
In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated by the war.
28 September 1976
Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?
03 November 1956
American horror television movie from 1956.
26 June 1948
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
17 June 1998
The tragic, unexpected death of David in a car-crash causes the cozy, safe life of gardener Beth to be thrown into complete chaos.
28 October 1975
TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser who only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".
04 November 1971
The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils.
01 January 1979
Sam and Ingrid start out with dreams of marrying someone rich who will make life easy. When they find they do not match up to each other's dreams however, they decide to set about making another dream come true.
24 December 2009
A personal take on working with Harold Pinter via intimate conversations with actors, directors and writers who share their experiences of the man and his work.
17 August 1953
A newly married man is convicted of murdering a former lover in his apartment, and sentenced to hang.
25 April 1966
The Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse London and Broadway musical hit Stop the World, I Want to Get Off is given literal treatment in this filmization.
06 May 1979
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo.
10 October 1972
Gustave meets Adolph who tries to show him that Gustave’s fiancée doesn’t love him.
30 August 1997
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence.
05 April 1964
Private Jupp is under arrest for a long list of charges and is being escorted by train to Catterick Camp.
02 May 1975
A play that looks at the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and Ernest Hemmingway in 1925 Paris.
24 May 1977
A disillusioned husband and wife take a trip across the Channel, hoping to find themselves. In fact they find the French are not what they expected.
24 April 1960
Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.
11 May 1976
Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops.
06 October 1966
The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe.
09 January 1975
Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war.
