English Conscientious Objectors: Harold Pinter, Benjamin Britten, James Lovelock, James Mason, Ralph Rumney, Olaf Stapledon, Peter Pears

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Harold Pinter, Benjamin Britten, James Lovelock, James Mason, Ralph Rumney, Olaf Stapledon, Peter Pears, Donald Pleasence, Robert Simpson, Christopher Fry, Nicholas Winton, Michael Gough, Donald Watson, Robert Nye, John Raven, Basil Bunting, John Pritchard, Paul Eddington, John Tunnard, Eric Fletcher Waters, Stanley Morison, Bernard Archard, Frith Banbury, Michael Rowntree, Thomas Pitfield, Geoffrey Bush. Excerpt: Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 - 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career 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 to film. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), 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. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing National Service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Antonia Fraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1957. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by ...