The Resume

(October 10, 1930-December 24, 2008)
Born in London, United Kingdom
Wrote 'The Birthday Party' (1957), 'The Dumb Waiter' (1957), 'A Slight Ache' (1958), 'The Caretaker' (1959), 'The Collection' (1961), 'The Lover' (1962), 'The Tea Party' (1964), 'The Homecoming' (1964), 'Landscape' (1967), 'Old Times' (1970), 'Old Man's Land' (1974), 'Betrayal' (1978), 'Family Voices' (1980), 'Victoria Station' (1982), 'One for the Road' (1984), 'Mountain Language' (1988), 'Moonlight' (1993), 'Ashes to Ashes' (1996) and 'Celebration' (1999)
Won the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005)

Why he might be annoying:

He described cricket as 'one of my main obsessions in life.'
He feigned a nervous breakdown in order to drop out of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
He wrote 'Betrayal' about one of his extramarital affairs.
He was estranged from his son Daniel, not having spoken with him since 1993.
He supported Fidel Castro and Slobodan Milosevic.
He wrote, 'The United States is a monster out of control.... American barbarism will destroy the world.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He was described by the Nobel Prize committee as 'the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century.'
He began protesting apartheid in the 60s.
While undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the esophagus, he directed a production of his play No Man's Land (2002).
An interviewer noted about his second marriage, to Antonia Fraser, 'More than three decades later, the two are rarely apart, and Mr. Pinter turns soft, even cozy, when he talks about his wife.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BBC Faces of the Year - Male [2005]
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 16]
• I am an Adulterer
• I Died Before Unwrapping Presents [Christmas Eve - December 24th] (Ranked: 2008)
• I Died in 2008 (Ranked: 78)
• I Have Esophageal Cancer
• I Married in 1980
• I Turned Down a Knighthood
• I was Estranged From My Child
• I'm Buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [London]
• Look at Me, I'm on the Red Carpet
• Look at Me, I'm Using a Cane or Crutches
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• People with Tom, Dick or Harry in their Names
• Playwrights
• Profiles 24251-24500 (Ranked: 24453)
• Tea and Bagels [English Jews]
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20081224)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 12 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 100 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 57 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 19 Votes: 89.47% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 113 Votes: 62.83% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 118 Votes: 51.69% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 81.82% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 28 Votes: 67.86% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 88 Votes: 65.91% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 94 Votes: 58.51% Annoying