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.

  • 人气度 : 1.668
  • 闻名 : Acting
  • 生日 : 1929-07-22
  • 出生地 : Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
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Vivien Merchant 电影

  • 1972
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    狂凶记

    狂凶记

    7.091 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Month in the Country

    A Month in the Country

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1977
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    铁面人

    铁面人

    6.2 1977 HD

    故事发生在1660年的法国,国王路易(理查德·查伯兰 Richard Chamberlain...

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  • 1973
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    突击者

    突击者

    6.789 1973 HD

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  • 1972
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    牛奶树下

    牛奶树下

    6.2 1972 HD

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  • 1966
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    阿尔菲

    阿尔菲

    6.451 1966 HD

    阿尔菲(迈克尔•凯恩 Michael Caine...

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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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    车祸

    车祸

    6.2 1967 HD

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  • 1973
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    归乡

    归乡

    5.8 1973 HD

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  • 1965
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    Tea Party

    Tea Party

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1963
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    情人

    情人

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Maids

    The Maids

    5.4 1975 HD

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  • 1968
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    Funeral Games

    Funeral Games

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Common

    The Common

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1960
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    A Night Out

    A Night Out

    1 1960 HD

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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

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Collection

    The Collection

    1 1970 HD

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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

    5 1962 HD

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  • 1962
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    Studio Four

    Studio Four

    6 1962 HD

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  • 1977
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    Secret Army

    Secret Army

    7.6 1977 HD

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  • 1980
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    5 1980 HD

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  • 1967
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    NBC Experiment in Television

    NBC Experiment in Television

    1 1967 HD

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