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Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 1926 – 6 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive. He is best remembered for his Tony Award winning play Sleuth , and its acclaimed 1972 film adaptation .
Anthony Shaffer, the playwright who won a 1971 Tony Award for his delicious theatrical thriller, Sleuth, died of a heart attack in London Nov. 6. Mr. Shaffer, whose health had been declining...
Nov 6, 2001 · Anthony Shaffer is best-known as the author of the mystery-thriller play Sleuth, in addition to other plays and screenplays involving crime and mystery themes. His identical twin brother, Peter Shaffer , was also a playwright.
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Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The Broadway production received the Tony Award for Best Play, and Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. The play was adapted for feature films in 1972, 2007 and 2014.
Nov 12, 2001 · Anthony Shaffer, the British playwright whose jokey but chilling thriller ''Sleuth'' ran for more than 2,300 performances in London's West End and more than 2,000 on Broadway, died in London on...
Dec 6, 2023 · How a sly Jewish playwright wrote ‘the Citizen Kane of horror movies’. Despite unassuming beginnings, Anthony Shaffer’s ‘Wicker Man’ has become a cult film of gargantuan proportions....
Married three times, Anthony Shaffer had two daughters and died in November 2001. He will be remembered as one of the leading international mystery writers for both stage and screen, justifiably renowned for his sophisticated double-edged dialogue, convoluted plots and unexpected conclusions—a consummate storyteller.
