Harold Pinter

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1930 age 0

   Born

2. 1963 age 33

   CreditThe Servant

   CreditThe Servantscreenwriter

3. 1981 age 51

   CreditThe French Lieutenant's Womanscreenwriter

4. 1993 age 63

   CreditThe Remains of the Dayscreenwriter

5. 2008 age 78

   Died

• PVPeter Vaughan2 titles
• JFJames Fox2 titles
• LHLena Headey1 title
• RVRupert Vansittart1 title
• DWDavid Warner1 title
• AHAnthony Hopkins1 title
• RGRichard Griffiths1 title
• PWPenelope Wilton1 title
• TPTim Pigott-Smith1 title
• AAAlun Armstrong1 title

• Spouse

  • VMVivien Merchant
  • AFAntonia Fraser

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• If only I could get down to Sidcup! I've been waiting for the weather to break. He's got my papers, this man I left them with, it's got it all down there, I could prove everything.

  Harold Pinter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  Harold Pinter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

  Harold Pinter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth. [...] Certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  Harold Pinter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Sandinistas are a democratically elected government which originally led a popular revolution to overthrow a dictatorship based on slavery. ... <br> US foreign policy could be best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I'll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that. It can hardly be said to be a complicated foreign policy. What is interesting about it is that it is so incredibly successful. It possesses the structures of disinformation, use of rhetoric, distortion of language, which are very persuasive, but are actually a pack of lies. It is very successful propaganda. They have the money, they have the technology, they have all the means to get away with it, and they do. I find the ignorance in this country, Britain, and certainly the US, really quite deep. It is not only the Republican Party and government in the US which are responsible for this state of affairs, but I see the Democrats as only differing by degrees. While they say "no more military aid to the Contras"… t

  Harold Pinter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." <br> What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

  Harold Pinter, CC BY-SA 4.0