Editing Harold Pinter (section)

===As director===
Pinter began to direct more frequently during the 1970s, becoming an associate director of the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] (NT) in 1973.<ref name=HPNT>{{cite web |url=http://nationaltheatre.org.uk/download.php?id=4019 |title=Harold Pinter, Director and Playwright at the National Theatre |format=MSWord |publisher=[[Royal National Theatre]] |access-date=27 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529045912/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/download.php?id=4019 |archive-date=29 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>  He directed almost 50 productions of his own and others' plays for stage, film, and television, including 10 productions of works by [[Simon Gray]]: the stage and/or film premières of ''[[Butley (film)|Butley]]'' (stage, 1971; film, 1974), ''[[Otherwise Engaged]]'' (1975), ''The Rear Column'' (stage, 1978; TV, 1980), ''Close of Play'' (NT, 1979), ''[[Quartermaine's Terms]]'' (1981), ''Life Support'' (1997), ''The Late Middle Classes'' (1999), and ''The Old Masters'' (2004).<ref name=Telegraphobit/>  Several of those productions starred [[Alan Bates]] (1934–2003), who originated the stage and screen roles of not only Butley but also Mick in Pinter's first major commercial success, ''[[The Caretaker (play)|The Caretaker]]'' (stage, 1960; film, 1964); and in Pinter's double-bill produced at the [[Lyric Hammersmith]] in 1984, he played Nicolas in ''[[One for the Road (Harold Pinter play)|One for the Road]]'' and the cab driver in ''[[Victoria Station (play)|Victoria Station]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/277/49/155675618w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS269061759&dyn=3!xrn_21_0_CS269061759&hst_1?sw_aep=uwesteng |title=Critics' Choice |last=Staff |journal=[[The Times]] |publisher=Times Digital Archive |date=31 March 1984 |page=16 |issue=61794 |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 June 2011}}</ref>  Among over 35 plays that Pinter directed were ''Next of Kin'' (1974), by [[John Hopkins (screenwriter)|John Hopkins]]; ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'' (1976),  by [[Noël Coward]]; ''[[The Innocents (play)|The Innocents]]'' (1976), by [[William Archibald (playwright)|William Archibald]]; ''Circe and Bravo'' (1986), by [[Donald Freed]]; ''[[Taking Sides (play)|Taking Sides]]'' (1995), by [[Ronald Harwood]]; and ''[[Twelve Angry Men (play)|Twelve Angry Men]]'' (1996), by [[Reginald Rose]].<ref name=HPNT/><ref name=BattyDir>{{cite web |url=http://www.haroldpinter.org/directing/index.shtml |title=Stage, film and TV productions directed by Harold Pinter |editor=Batty, Mark |work=haroldpinter.org |year=2011 |access-date=27 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613201759/http://www.haroldpinter.org/directing/index.shtml |archive-date=13 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>