The Dumb Waiter

Television films and Radio

  • 1959 – the play was turned down by the BBC, being considered "too obscure" for the TV audience.[4]
  • 1981 – the play was produced for BBC Radio starring Roy Kinnear and Bob Hoskins.
  • 1985 – Kenneth Ives directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring Kenneth Cranham and Colin Blakely, first broadcast by the BBC in July 1985.[11]
  • 1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.[12][13][14]

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