Vivien Merchant

Vivien Merchant

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Vivien Merchant (born Ada Thompson 22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982) was a British actress. She performed in many stage productions and several films, including Alfie (1966) and Frenzy (1972). Her performance in Alfie earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was the first wife of the playwright Harold Pinter, whom she met when working as a repertory actress and married in 1956. Their son, Daniel, was born in 1958. Having performed the role of Rose in a production of his first play, The Room (1957) at the Hampstead Theatre in 1960, she also appeared in many of Pinter's subsequent works, including as Ruth in The Homecoming (1964) on stage (1965) and screen (The Homecoming, 1973). The last of his plays in which she performed was Old Times (1971) as Anna. Their marriage began disintegrating in the mid-1960s. From 1962 to 1969, Harold Pinter had a clandestine affair with Joan Bakewell, which informs Pinter's play Betrayal and his film adaptation, also called Betrayal. In 1975 Pinter began a serious affair with the historian Lady Antonia Fraser, the wife of Sir Hugh Fraser, which he confessed to his wife that March. At first, Merchant took it very well, saying positive things about Fraser, according to her friend artist Guy Vaesen (as cited by Billington); but, Vaesen recalled, after "a female friend of Vivien's trotted round to her house and poisoned her mind against Antonia ... Life in Hanover Terrace [where the Pinters then lived] gradually became impossible". Pinter left, and Vivien Merchant filed for divorce and gave interviews to the tabloid press, expressing her distress.The Frasers' divorce became final in 1977 and the Pinters' in 1980. In 1980 Pinter married Antonia Fraser. Vivien Merchant never overcame her grief and bitterness at losing Pinter, dying at the age of 53 on 3 October 1982, from acute alcoholism Description above from the Wikipedia article Vivien Merchant ,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Nav: Vivien Merchant
  • Popularity: 1.176
  • Tê zanîn: Acting
  • Rojbûn: 1929-07-22
  • Min jî birîya te Kirîye: Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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  • Jî Weke Naskirî ye: Ada Brand Thomson
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Vivien Merchant Fîlim

  • 1972
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    Frenzy

    Frenzy

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  • 1966
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    A Month in the Country

    A Month in the Country

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  • 1977
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    The Man in the Iron Mask

    The Man in the Iron Mask

    6.2 1977 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Offence

    The Offence

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  • 1972
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    Under Milk Wood

    Under Milk Wood

    6.2 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    Alfie

    Alfie

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  • 1969
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    Alfred the Great

    Alfred the Great

    4.3 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Accident

    Accident

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  • 1973
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    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming

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  • 1963
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    The Lover

    The Lover

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  • 1965
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    Tea Party

    Tea Party

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  • 1975
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    The Maids

    The Maids

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  • 1968
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    Funeral Games

    Funeral Games

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  • 1973
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    The Common

    The Common

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  • 1960
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    A Night Out

    A Night Out

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  • 1972
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    A War of Children

    A War of Children

    7.2 1972 HD

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  • 1960
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    Night School

    Night School

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  • 1970
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    The Collection

    The Collection

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  • 1967
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    Opus

    Opus

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1962
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    Studio 4

    Studio 4

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    Studio Four

    Studio Four

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  • 1977
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    Secret Army

    Secret Army

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  • 1980
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

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  • 1967
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    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

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