Harold Pinter: Writer, Actor and Activist (Full Documentary)

[@thomassimmons1950]

I was introduced to Pinter by a crusty old, Texas, drama teacher, 70's, in college. I'd come from a working class neighborhood in St. Louis, didn't understand much of it, certainly intellectually, but there was an inner mystery to his work, I'd like to think, I grasped intuitively. Like Beckett, it took a lifetime to digest its genius. At 65, here I am, still fascinated with this man from another world, who could at times be more familiar than myself. Thank you for this. (Pause) Cheers !

[@77heraclitus]

Thank you for this excellent video. Loved the actors who offered their commentaries.

[@samuelhumphrey5908]

I circled back round to this Pinter documentary having just been to see "Always Dance" about Beckett. They were friends. Great job PERSPECTIVE ❤

[@MrAyla]

One of my acting professors in university was Henry Woolf. A good friend of Pinter. He once accidentally rang the student lounge and I answered the phone and I had to run off and find Henry. One of my favourite random encounters

[@barrycrump6189]

I have never really fully enjoyed any Pinter play, yet I found this documentary about him to be rather compelling.

[@melefth]

That sums it up for me, too.

[@MissPerriwinkle]

he was an amusing character...............

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Very good decision fans, seeking for inspirations is crucial, learning from outsiders how to break the limits and see things beyond, how to get conscious of our human inner universe in order to exploit it the best we can. In the end there's always the powerful mad man to ruin our lives for a ridiculous tiny ambition to be . .. important performer, freedom of expression is crucial for our humankind to be protected from further psychopaths and mass murderers

[@cdshull]

I had the privilege of playing Jerry in the American college primere of Betrayal at California State College of Pennsylvania under the director Robert Cowen.

[@Johnconno]

Pinter happily voted for Thatcher in 1979. He kept quiet about it...

[@johnstewartrichards5922]

How do you know he was happy? You mean he didn’t even grumble a little bit? Did his wife tell him he had to do it? Was he only picking the lesser of two evils? Perhaps he overheard conversation on a park bench, then forgot why he voted and if he had indeed voted for her?

[@Johnconno]

@@johnstewartrichards5922 Are you attempting a pastiche of Pinters style? It just won't do. Won't do at all... Will it?

[@terryhand]

So What? A lot of people who were not natural Tories voted for Thatcher. I don't know if you were around in the seventies, but if you were you, would know what a disaster it was.

[@chrisprobert5340]

Well, wouldn't you?..

[@amulyamishra5745]

Is that a crime?

[@unclealand]

Oh, yeah? Just try "Old Times," THEN come back and try to talk Pinter.

[@saltspringdesign]

He was my father's cousin and dad lived with the Pinters through university years. Interesting man. My dad and he used to get into fist fights apparently.

[@tonykins1945]

Pinter was well-known for strong opinions and a short fuse, though his many friends loved him dearly.

[@nickwyatt9498]

I love Pinter and enjoyed this a lot but I could really have done without the pastiches. Vanity project and took up valuable documentary time which could have been better used.

[@nickwyatt9498]

PS: Henry Goodman's definition of Pinter's work as "the savage dance of human needs" - excellent. Although one would have to add - "with jokes".

[@speedtimothy]

'baby-boomers' and the war generation with Harold Macmillan saying "you've never had it so good" ...archetypal, patriarchal family's everywhere. Ah, i remember it well.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

For clearer understanding of Pinter see : H C Anderson . The Emperor's New Clothes !

[@donovanmedieval]

Should his wife have been refered to as 'Dame Antonia Fraser.' 'Dame Antonia Fraser Pinter,' 'Dame Antonia Pinter,' 'Lady Antonia Fraser Pinter,' 'Lady Antonia Pinter,' or 'Dame Antonia Fraser, Lady Pinter'?

[@58christiansful]

You are being droll or silly. She has always been known as Lady Antonia Fraser and will die Lady AF.

[@alanlawrence2954]

Sounds like a jerk... But I could be wrong.

[@Interwurlitzer]

As your first sentence of an aspiring surrealist writer...i see talent there (could be wrong)

[@paulhiggins1577]

Who? Steven Jerkoff?