Editing Harold Pinter (section)

===As actor===
Pinter's acting career spanned over 50 years and, although he often played [[villain]]s, included a wide range of roles on stage and in radio, film, and television.<ref name=BattyAct/><ref name=BFIFilmTVCredits>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/453152/credits.html |title=Pinter, Harold (1930–2008) Credits |work=BFI Screenonline |year=2011 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040705202826/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/453152/credits.html |archive-date=5 July 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref>  In addition to roles in radio and television adaptations of his own plays and dramatic sketches, early in his screenwriting career he made several cameo appearances in films based on his own screenplays; for example, as a society man in ''[[The Servant (1963 film)|The Servant]]'' (1963) and as Mr. Bell in ''[[Accident (1967 film)|Accident]]'' (1967), both directed by [[Joseph Losey]]; and as a bookshop customer in his later film ''[[Turtle Diary]]'' (1985), starring [[Michael Gambon]], [[Glenda Jackson]], and [[Ben Kingsley]].<ref name=BattyAct/>

Pinter's notable film and television roles included the lawyer Saul Abrahams opposite [[Peter O'Toole]] in ''[[Rogue Male (1976 film)|Rogue Male]]'', [[BBC Television|BBC TV]]'s 1976 adaptation of [[Geoffrey Household]]'s 1939 novel, and a drunk Irish journalist in ''[[Langrishe, Go Down (film)|Langrishe, Go Down]]'' (starring [[Judi Dench]] and [[Jeremy Irons]]) distributed on [[BBC Two]] in 1978<ref name=BFIFilmTVCredits/> and released in movie theatres in 2002.<ref name=HPFLC>{{cite web |url=http://www.haroldpinter.org/home/lincolnfestival.shtml |title=The Lincoln Center Festival |editor=Batty, Mark |work=haroldpinter.org |year=2001 |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613213945/http://www.haroldpinter.org/home/lincolnfestival.shtml |archive-date=13 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>  Pinter's later film roles included the criminal Sam Ross in ''Mojo'' (1997), written and directed by [[Jez Butterworth]], based on Butterworth's [[Mojo (play)|play of the same name]]; Sir Thomas Bertram (his most substantial feature-film role) in ''[[Mansfield Park (1999 film)|Mansfield Park]]'' (1998), a character that Pinter described as "a very civilised man&nbsp;... a man of great sensibility but in fact, he's upholding and sustaining a totally brutal system [the slave trade] from which he derives his money"; and Uncle Benny, opposite [[Pierce Brosnan]] and [[Geoffrey Rush]], in ''[[The Tailor of Panama (film)|The Tailor of Panama]]'' (2001).<ref name=BattyAct/>  In [[Television movie|television films]], he played Mr. Bearing, the father of [[ovarian cancer]] patient Vivian Bearing, played by [[Emma Thompson]] in [[Mike Nichols]]'s [[HBO]] film of the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning play ''[[Wit (film)|Wit]]'' (2001); and the Director opposite [[John Gielgud]] (Gielgud's last role) and [[Rebecca Pidgeon]] in ''[[Catastrophe (play)|Catastrophe]]'', by [[Samuel Beckett]], directed by [[David Mamet]] as part of ''Beckett on Film'' (2001).<ref name=BattyAct/><ref name=BFIFilmTVCredits/>