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Philip Saville (28 October 1927 – 22 December 2016) was a British director, screenwriter and former actor whose career lasted half a century. The British Film Institute's Screenonline website described Saville as "one of Britain's most prolific and pioneering television and film directors".
Philip Saville was born on 28 October 1930 in London, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986) and The Buccaneers (1995).
Philip Saville was born on October 28, 1930 in London, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986) and The Buccaneers (1995). He was married to Nina Zuckerman and Jane Arden.
Feb 17, 2017 · Philip Saville,who has died aged 86, directed two of the most notable television dramas of the 1980s, Alan Bleasdale’s bleakly compulsive series Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) and The Life...
Philip Saville is one of Britain's most prolific and pioneering television and film directors. Having started out as an actor, his television career in Britain continued behind the cameras in 1955.
Jul 29, 2020 · Philip Saville is a director whose work on Play for Today cannot be easily categorised. The variety of his eight contributions is testament to the scope of both strand and director. Saville was an iconoclastic, innovative director, whose credits include many pioneering productions and notable television firsts.
Philip Saville. Director, Actor, Writer. 28 December 1930 to 22 December 2016. A British director, actor and writer whose breakthrough came with a successful TV production of Harold Pinter’s A Night Out (1960), one of Saville’s 45 contributions to Armchair Theatre (1956-1972).
