Harold Pinter, playwright, screenwriter, political activist, occasional dickhead, and adjective.

Famed

for the

 
pauses

in his stage work

originally meant to help actors act his plays in a more natural manner than tended to be fashionable in the 1960s

but which became more stylised and

mannerist

over the years

to the point that when he once gave a reading of one of his monologues, everyone complained because he was reading it too fast.