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5 months ago 05th Jan 14:22
The world of arts and movies still finds itself in mourning after Nobel Prize winning playwright, screenwriter and actor Harold Pinter lost his battle with cancer at the age of 78.
Pinter's career spanned over half a century producing twenty nine stage plays and twenty six screenplays and is widely regarded as one of the most influential dramatist of his generation and the best playwright to ever come from the UK.
Born in Hackney in 1930 the young Pinter discovered a passion and talent for acting while he was an pupil at Hackney Downs Grammar School going on pursue this by achieving a scholarship to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). However his time at RADA was short lived lasting just two terms.
After briefly appearing in Dick Whittington and his Cat and attending the Central School for Speech and Drama in 1951 his career began to take off just a year later when he toured Ireland with Anew McMaster's theatre company before moving on to work at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith where he began to focus in a career in writing.
1957 brought Pinter's first major play with The Room, which was a student production at the University of Bristol which he followed up with The Birthday Party the same year but it was a critical and commercial failure and was forced to close early.
In the early sixties Pinter established a reputation with his play The Caretaker the disaster that was The Birthday party was resurrected on both the stage and television. He followed this up with The Homecoming, which won a Tony Award for Best Play and Pinter was a success.
As well as being a hit on the stage his works were also popular on the big screen as The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) which he adapted to film.
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