The Caretaker Group

Sittersback to top

• Sir Alan Arthur Bates (1934-2003), Actor. Sitter associated with 6 portraits.
• Harold Pinter (1930-2008), Playwright, actor and director. Sitter in 17 portraits.
• Donald Pleasence (1919-1995), Actor. Sitter in 7 portraits.
• Robert Shaw (1927-1978), Actor, playwright and author. Sitter in 3 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Peter Rand (1940-), Photographer. Artist of 17 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

This portraitback to top

Photographed on location in a house in Islington, London, this portrait shows the cast of the 1963 film adaptation of Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker (1960). First staged at the Arts Theatre, London on 27 April 1960, Pinter's breakthrough play explores the power struggle that ensues when a vulnerable man, Aston, who lives with his younger brother Mick, takes in an elderly tramp, Davies. For the film version, Alan Bates, Donald Pleasance and Robert Shaw played the roles of Mick, Davies, and Aston respectively. The composition of Rand's portrait deliberately reflects the claustrophobia of Clive Donner's 1963 film, for which Pinter provided the screenplay.
Published in Vogue March 1963.

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• Spotlight on Peter Rand: 10 Photographs from the 60s (16 April 2012 - 16 September 2012)

Subject/Themeback to top

• Shadows