
Philip Saville
Known for: Directing
Born: October 28, 1930
Died: December 22, 2016
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 American folk singer Bob Dylan, whom Sav…
Known for

The Mirror and Markheim
1954
The Night of the Full Moon
1954

The Betrayal
1957
On the Run
1958

Murder at 3am
1953

The Great Van Robbery
1959
An Honourable Murder
1960

Three Crooked Men
1958

Contraband Spain
1955

A Piece of Cake
1948

The Straw Man
1953

Bang! You're Dead
1954

Penny and the Pownall Case
1948

The Blind Goddess
1948

To the Public Danger
1948

Return of the Unknown
2014

The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981