Word: hackney
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Pinter owes much of his success to his sense of theatrical immediacy, acquired during twelve years as an actor. Darkly handsome, with black curly hair and threatening eyebrows, he was born in the grimy East End of London, the only child of a Jewish tailor. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, where he admired an eccentric master with a wild passion for the theater who liked to throw inkwells out the window and strode the halls shouting lines from Othello...