Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include
The Birthday Party (1957),
The Homecoming (1964) and
Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include
The Servant (1963),
The Go-Between (1971),
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981),
The Trial (1993) and
Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.