Harold Pinter (1930-2008), Playwright, actor and director

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Playwright, director and (from 1949-57) actor. The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960) and The Homecoming (1965) are among his best known plays; he has also written several volumes of poetry and among his screenplays are those for The Servant (1962), and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature 2005; his acceptance speech included a powerful denouncement of American foreign policy.