Noun
English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)
Source: WordNetWhen Harold Pinter was lobbying to have London's Comedy Theatre renamed the Pinter Theatre, Stoppard wrote back: "Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?" Tom Stoppard
I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them. Kenneth Cranham
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. Tom Stoppard
Fast paced, funny and really quite gruesome, it was Harold Pinter meets Quentin Tarantino, a one-set epic with slick dialogue, super surprises and a, erm, killer soundtrack. Source: Internet
Harold Pinter read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Source: Internet
The playwright Harold Pinter just used his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech to maintain that murdering, torturing and mendacity is nothing new for the United States, particularly since World War II, and it was quite a speech. Source: Internet