Harold Pinter
(1930-2008), Playwright, actor and directorSitter in 21 portraits
Playwright, director and (from 1949-57) actor. Born in Hackney, East London, Pinter studied at RADA and then the Central School of Speech and Drama. The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960) and The Homecoming (1965) are among his best-known plays and established his reputation as a writer. Pinter also wrote several volumes of poetry, and among his screenplays are those for The Servant (1962), and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). He received numerous awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005, for which his acceptance speech included a powerful denouncement of American foreign policy, and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007.
Playwrights (John Mortimer; Norman Frederick Simpson; Harold Pinter)
by John Hedgecoe
bromide print, 1960
NPG P781
by Dmitri Kasterine
modern bromide print from original negative, 2009, based on a work of 1977
NPG P1334
by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG P150(43)
by Justin Mortimer
oil on canvas, 1992
NPG 6185
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, June 1960
NPG x88224
Harold Pinter; Daniel Pinter; Vivien Merchant
by Associated Press
vintage print, 22 August 1961
NPG x194308
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1962
NPG x14179
by Peter Rand
bromide print, 7 January 1963
NPG x136008
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, November 1963
NPG x198433
Kenneth Peacock Tynan; Harold Pinter
by Jurgen Schadeberg
silver print, 1968
NPG x137293
Harold Pinter; Sir Ronald Harwood
by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
bromide fibre print, 21 November 2002
NPG x126239
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