Pinter, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, also wrote film scripts such as The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal, as well as being an actor himself, a director and a poet.
Tributes have been pouring in after Pinter’s death was announced and former actress Glenda Jackson said his passing was "a great loss not only to the theatre but... also a great loss to people who fight for human rights".
Sir Michael Gambon, who had played roles in many of Pinter's plays, was quoted by the Guardian newspaper as saying: "He was our God, Harold Pinter, for actors. He was the man who wrote the plays you wanted to be in."
Pinter leaves behind him a wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, who has paid tribute to her late-husband and her years of marriage to him saying it had been “a privilege to live with him for over 33 years."
