Directing • AGE 86
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 direc...


Return of the Unknown
2014

Discovering Hamlet
Director
2011

Pinter's Progress
Director
2009

The Gospel of John
Director
2003

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Director
2002

The Biographer
Director
2002

My Uncle Silas
Director
2001

Little White Lies
Director
1998

Metroland
Director
1997

Deacon Brodie
Director
1997

The Buccaneers
Director
1995

Wall of Silence
Director
1993

Family Pictures
Director
1993

Angels
Director
1992

The Cloning of Joanna May
Director
1992

The Cloning of Joanna May
Director
1992

Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
Director
1990

Max and Helen
Director
1990

Fellow Traveller
Director
1989

Screen One
Director
1989

The Fruit Machine
Director
1988

First Born
Director
1988

First Born
Director
1988

Mandela
Director
1987

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Director
1986

Shadey
Director
1985

Screen Two
Director
1985

Those Glory Glory Days
Director
1983

Boys from the Blackstuff
Director
1982

The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Self
1981

Design for Living
Director
1979

Rotten
Director
1978

Count Dracula
Director
1977

Count Dracula
Director
1977

Meriel the Ghost Girl
Director
1976

Shuttlecock
Director
1976

Plays for Britain
Director
1976

Moss
Director
1975

Shades of Greene
Director
1975

Gangsters
Director
1975

Churchill's People
Director
1974

Playhouse
Director
1974

The Actual Woman
Director
1974

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Director
1973

Access to the Children
Director
1973

The Creditors
Writer
1972

In the Beautiful Caribbean
Director
1972

O Fat White Woman
Director
1971

Secrets
Director
1971

The Fox Trot
Director
1971

The Rainbirds
Director
1971

The Long Distance Piano Player
Director
1970

Play for Today
Director
1970

The Best House in London
Director
1969

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Director
1969

Oedipus the King
Screenplay
1968

ITV Playhouse
Director
1967

The Machine Stops
Director
1966

Exit 19
Writer
1966

Stop the World: I Want to Get Off
Director
1966

BBC Play of the Month
Director
1965

Thirty-Minute Theatre
Director
1965

Out of the Unknown
Director
1965

In Camera
Writer
1964

The Wednesday Play
Adaptation
1964

Hamlet at Elsinore
Director
1964

Living Image
Director
1963

The Madhouse on Castle Street
Director
1963

Afternoon of a Nymph
Director
1962

Night Conspirators
Director
1962

A Night Out
Director
1960

The Great Van Robbery
Chase
1959

Three Crooked Men
Seppy
1958

The Betrayal
Bartel
1957

Armchair Theatre
Director
1956

Contraband Spain
Martin Scott
1955

Bang! You're Dead
Ben Jones
1954

The Mirror and Markheim
Markheim
1954

The Straw Man
Link Hunter
1953

Murder at 3am
Edward "Teddy" King / Jim King
1953

A Piece of Cake
Dinner Guest
1948

The Blind Goddess
Mainwaring's Junior
1948

To the Public Danger
Man in pub watching billiards game (uncredited)
1948

Penny and the Pownall Case
Slim, Police Car Driver
1948