Sir Peter Levin Shaffer CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for the plays Equus and...

Peter Schaffer may refer to: Peter Shaffer (1926–2016), English playwright and screenwriter Peter Schaffer (sports agent) (born 1962), American sports...

and dramatist Peter Shaffer, and they had another brother, Brian. He graduated with a law degree from Trinity College, Cambridge. Shaffer worked as a barrister...

received his award during the school's degree ceremony. Firth lodged with Peter Shaffer throughout the Broadway run of Equus, in a father–son relationship....

adapted by Joe Barton from the 1979 stage play of the same name by Peter Shaffer, and gives a fictional account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus...

period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play of the same name, in turn inspired by the 1830...

Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer which gives a fictional account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, imagining a...

spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames. Born in 1800–1899 Arnold...

prominence originating the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1979 Peter Shaffer play Amadeus, for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best...

(1975, with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson) and Betrayal (1978), Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (1979, with Paul Scofield and Simon Callow), and the London...

a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for her roles in Peter Shaffer's plays The Private Ear and The Public Eye, again opposite Kenneth Williams...

by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was...

directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Peter Shaffer, based on his 1973 play. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright...

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor in Amadeus (1984), an adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play of the same name. Critic James Berardinelli noted that Jones portrayed...

Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965. The premise of the piece is that light and dark are transposed, so that when...

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, keyboardist, composer, actor, author, comedian, and musician who served as David...

donkeys and zebras Equus (play), a play by Peter Shaffer Equus (film), a film adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play Equus (comics), a comic book character;...

professional acting career when he appeared in a 1978 adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play Equus. His first leading film role was in the film Diner, directed...

major role came in 1958, when she was 16, as Pamela Harrington in the Peter Shaffer play Five Finger Exercise. The show ran one year in London, and then...

attempted to adapt Tolkien's works include William Snyder, Peter Shaffer, John Boorman, Ralph Bakshi, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro. Other filmmakers who...

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Drama Desk Awards for playing a teenager who blinded six horses in the Peter Shaffer play Equus (2009), J. Pierrepont Finch in the musical comedy revival...

Amadeus (1995, 1996) by Peter Shaffer — Salieri The Little Foxes (1996) by Lillian Hellman — Horace Equus (1997) by Peter Shaffer  — Dysart Much Ado About...

also in the 1960 ITV production) The Private Ear and the Public Eye by Peter Shaffer (1962, with Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams) Tiny Alice by Edward...

given name and people with the name Amadeus (play), 1979 stage play by Peter Shaffer Amadeus (film), 1984 film based on the play Amadeus (TV series), an...

Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-4597-1871-5. MacMurraugh-Kavanagh, Madeleine (1998). Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-37295-5. Moore...

Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, Neil Simon, Yasmina Reza and Peter Shaffer) have won the award more than once, each winning twice. With ten nominations...

Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Lettice Douffet in the Peter Shaffer play Lettice and Lovage (1990). She was Tony-nominated for her roles...

British-American epic historical drama film based on the play of the same name by Peter Shaffer. It stars Robert Shaw as Francisco Pizarro and Christopher Plummer as...