He balanced his father's faintly authoritarian nature with his mother's instinctive generosity. And it was not difficult to trace in Pinter's own complex personality elements from both sides of the family. His father, Jack, was a hard-working tailor whose own family had artistic leanings: his mother, Frances, came from a convivial, extrovert and spiritually sceptical clan. His grandparents were Jews who had fled persecution in Poland and Odessa. ![]() Pinter was born into a Jewish family in the London borough of Hackney. Among the dramatists of the last century, Beckett is his only serious rival in terms of theatrical influence and it is a measure of Pinter's power that early on in his career he spawned the adjective "Pinteresque" suggesting a cryptically mysterious situation imbued with hidden menace. But it is for his plays that he will be best remembered and for his ability to create dramatic poetry out of everyday speech. He enjoyed parallel careers as actor, screenwriter and director and was also, especially in recent years, a vigorous political polemicist campaigning against abuses of human rights. Harold Pinter, who has died at the age of 78, was the most influential, provocative and poetic dramatist of his generation.
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