Dead|In his decades-long career, Stoppard wrote numerous award-winning plays and was also successful as a film scriptwriter.
British playwright, film scriptwriter and director Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88. The Guardian and the Reuters news agency report on the matter, among others.
Stoppard (real Tomas Straussler) was born in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1937. His family moved to Britain a few years later. In the early 50s, Stoppard worked as a journalist, but soon became interested in writing plays.
Stoppard was one of the most respected names in British theater for decades. His well-known plays include, among others Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead (1966), Arcadia (1993) and Rock’n Roll (2006). The first was made into a 1990 film version, which Stoppard both wrote and directed. Stoppard’s plays have been performed on theater stages in Finland as well.
Stoppard also wrote many other films. They include, for example Kingdom of the Sun (1987) as well as Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which he jointly won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Marc Normanin with. In addition, there is Stoppard’s handwriting Leo Tolstoy Film adaptation of Anna Karenina from 2012.