Philip Saville
Born in London, UK — Oct 28 1930• Died Dec 22 2016
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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 t…
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Philip Saville's Credits
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Play for Today
Directing
BBC Play of the Month
Directing
Playhouse
Directing
The Wednesday Play
Writing
Churchill's People
Directing
Out of the Unknown
Directing
My Uncle Silas
Directing
The Buccaneers
Directing
Boys from the Blackstuff
Directing
Count Dracula
Directing
Armchair Mystery Theatre
Directing
Armchair Theatre
Directing
Oedipus the King
Writing
First Born
Directing
Family Pictures
Directing
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Directing
Metroland
Directing
The Fruit Machine
Directing
Discovering Hamlet
Directing
Count Dracula
Directing
The Gospel of John
Directing
Fellow Traveller
Directing
Mandela
Directing
The Best House in London
Directing
A Night Out
Directing
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Directing
Hamlet at Elsinore
Directing
The Fox Trot
Directing
Deacon Brodie
Directing
Max and Helen
Directing
The Blind Goddess
Mainwaring's Junior
The Cloning of Joanna May
Directing
Wall of Silence
Directing
The Creditors
Writing
Shadey
Directing
Little White Lies
Directing
The Biographer
Directing
The Machine Stops
Directing
Contraband Spain
Martin Scott
Sam's Song
Directing
In Camera
Writing
Afternoon of a Nymph
Directing
Angels
Directing
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Directing
Gangsters
Directing
The Great Van Robbery
Chase
Three Crooked Men
Seppy
The Long Distance Piano Player
Directing
An Honourable Murder
Mark Anthony
Those Glory Glory Days
Directing
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Directing
The Paradise Suite
Directing
The Betrayal
Bartel
Penny and the Pownall Case
Slim, Police Car Driver
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Directing
Design for Living
Directing
Pinter's Progress
Directing
Exit 19
Writing
Prisoner and Escort
Directing
Moss
Directing
The Rainbirds
Directing
To the Public Danger
Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)
First Born
Directing
Secrets
Directing
The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
The Mirror and Markheim
Markheim
O Fat White Woman
Directing
A Piece of Cake
Dinner Guest
Living Image
Directing
On the Run
Driscoll
Cork and Bottle
Directing
Bang! You're Dead
Ben Jones
Murder at 3am
Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King
The Actual Woman
Directing
The Straw Man
Link Hunter
Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
Directing
Access to the Children
Directing
Night Conspirators
Directing
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Production
A Dream of Living
Directing
The Night of the Full Moon
Dale Merritt
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Directing
The Logic Game
Directing
Rotten
Directing
Shuttlecock
Directing
Return of the Unknown