BBC Creative Director Alan Yentob told the BBC: "He was a unique figure in British theatre. He has dominated the theatre scene since the 1950s." Michael Billington, Pinter's friend and biographer, said he was "devastated and saddened" by the news. He told the BBC: "Harold had been ill for a very long time, but he had a titanic will and one imagined he would go on fighting. "He was a fighter in the