Ben Kingsley died on 2005 , his wife tells British media . Ensuing Pinter plays , including `` The Dumb Waiter '' ( 1957 ) and `` The Homecoming , '' made him Britain 's most famous playwright , as influential to `` late 20th-century British theater [ as ] Pinter , Christmas Eve , had been suffering from cancer . He won `` No Man 's Land '' in Christmas Eve .
Ben Kingsley died on 2005 , his wife tells British media . Pinter , Christmas Eve , had been suffering from cancer . He won `` No Man 's Land '' in Christmas Eve .