Philip Saville

Directing

Philip Saville

Born 1930-10-28 London, UK 17 films

Philip Saville (sometimes credited as Philip Savile, born 28 October 1930, London) is a British actor who turned to television direction and screenwriting in the late 1950s. During the 1960s he directed several important television plays, such as Harold Pinter's A Night Out (1960) for ABC's Armchair Theatre anthology series, and the lost Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) for the BBC. The later production became famous as the first acting appearance of the …

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Filmography

17 films
On the Run poster

An ex-boxer on the run from gangsters for refusing to throw a fight, helps a garage owner and his d…

On the Run

★ 7.0 1958

The Betrayal poster

Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive trav…

The Betrayal

★ 6.3 1957

The Straw Man poster

A newly married man is convicted of murdering a former lover in his apartment, and sentenced to han…

The Straw Man

★ 6.3 1953