Harold Pinter’s Death – Cause and Date
Born (Birthday) October 10, 1930
Death Date December 24, 2008
Age of Death 78 years
Cause of Death Cancer
Profession Playwright
The playwright Harold Pinter died at the age of 78. Here is all you want to know and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
English playwright who wrote The Caretaker, which dissects human relationships. He won the Laurence Olivier Award in 1996.
He had several encounters with Anti-Semitism while growing up, creating bitter emotions and memories that influenced his writing.
His best known play is The Birthday Party, which is about piano player Stanley Webber.
Personal Life
He married Vivien Merchant in 1956, and the couple had a son.
He got to know one of his heroes and inspirations, fellow playwright Samuel Beckett.
How did Harold Pinter die?
Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation, died on Wednesday. He was 78 and lived in London. The cause was cancer, his wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, said Thursday.