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Harold Pinter
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Screenwriter, Actor, Play Author Born: October 10, 1930 in Hackney, London, England Death: December 24, 2008 Biography:It is difficult to determine what was in the psychological makeup of Briton "Harold Pinter" that resulted in a playwriting style distinguished by tension-filled pregnant pauses. Possibly this minimal use of wordage stemmed from Pinter's own communication problems with his Portuguese-born Jewish father. In the 1950s, Pinter attended RADA and hoped to be an actor under the Anglo-Saxon professional name David Baron. Instead he turned to writing, penning his first play, The Room, for the Bristol University drama department. After a lukewarm response to his first professionally produced play, The Birthday Party (1958), Pinter rose to fame with the 1960 stage production The Caretaker. With 1963's "The Servant", Pinter made his bow as a screenwriter, and also essayed his first film role (he has since acted in other films, such as 1985's "Turtle Diary", but hasn't declared any intention of making this his... Full Biography
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