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Tom Stoppard

Writer | Producer | Actor

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When Stoppard's family (then named "Straussler") fled Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis, they stopped identifying as Jews. Stoppard was still a young child when this happened, and by the end of the war, his father had died and his mother had remarried to a British man named Kenneth Stoppard, who gave Tom his last name and insisted that the family's former Judaism be kept secret... See more trivia »

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Tomas Straussler
in Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]
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2012 Parade's End (TV series)
– Episode #1.5 (2012) (screenplay)
– Episode #1.4 (2012) (screenplay)
– Episode #1.3 (2012) (screenplay)
– Episode #1.2 (2012) (screenplay)
– Episode #1.1 (2012) (screenplay)
 
2012/I Anna Karenina (screenplay)
 
2005 Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (play)
 
2001 Enigma (screenplay)
 
2000 Vatel (English adaptation)
 
1998 Shakespeare in Love (written by)
 
1998 Poodle Springs (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1995 The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (short) (play)
 
1991 Billy Bathgate (screenplay)
 
1990 The Russia House (screenplay)
 
1990 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (play - uncredited / written by)
 
1990 Largo Desolato (TV movie)
 
1989 The Dog It Was That Died (TV movie) (play / screenplay)
 
1987 Empire of the Sun (screenplay)
 
1985 Brazil (screenplay)
 
1984 Konsert för en sluten avdelning (TV movie)
 
1984 Squaring the Circle (TV movie)
 
1983 On the Razzle (TV movie) (by)
 
1979 The Human Factor (screenplay)
 
1979 BBC2 Playhouse (TV series)
– Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1979) (play)
 
1978 A Walk on the Water (TV movie)
 
1978 Despair (screenplay)
 
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV series)
– Professional Foul (1977) (writer)
 
1977 Travesties (TV movie)
 
1975 Three Men in a Boat (TV movie)
 
1975 The Boundary (TV movie) (written by)
 
1975 The Romantic Englishwoman
 
1973 Full House (TV series)
– Episode dated 6 January 1973 (1973) (play "After Magritte")
 
1971 Auf neutralem Boden (TV movie)
 
1971 Neutral Ground (TV movie)
 
1971 Ulazi slobodan covek (TV movie)
 
1970 NBC Experiment in Television (TV series documentary)
– The Engagement (1970) (radio play "The Dissolution of Dominic Boot" / screenplay)
 
1968 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
– Neutral Ground (1968) (writer)
 
1968 Neutral Ground (TV movie)
 
1967 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV series)
– Another Moon Called Earth (1967) (writer)
– Teeth (1967) (writer)
 
1966 A Separate Peace (TV movie)
 
1965 Der Spleen des George Riley (TV movie) (play)
 
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2013 Unstable Elements (documentary) (executive producer) (post-production)
 
2012 Parade's End (TV series) (executive producer - 3 episodes)
– Episode #1.5 (2012) (executive producer)
– Episode #1.4 (2012) (executive producer)
– Episode #1.1 (2012) (executive producer)
 
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1998 Poodle Springs (TV movie) (unconfirmed)
 
1964 'In Side Out' (short)
 
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1999 Shakespeare in Love and on Film (TV documentary) (thanks)
 
1998 A Civil Action (the producers wish to thank)
 
Show ShowSelf (29 titles)
2013 Creating the Extraordinary World of Anna Karenina (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2013 Anna Karenina: A Story of Epic Love (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2013 Parade's End: Featurette (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1995-2012 Charlie Rose (TV series)
Himself - Guest / Himself
– Episode dated 15 November 2012 (2012) … Himself - Guest
– Episode dated 7 February 2007 (2007) … Himself - Guest
– Episode dated 6 April 2004 (2004) … Himself - Guest
– Episode dated 27 March 2001 (2001) … Himself - Guest
– Episode dated 21 April 2000 (2000) … Himself - Guest
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2011 Mi reino por un caballo (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.61 (2011) … Himself
 
2011 The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited (video documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Amnesty! When They Are All Free (documentary)
Writer
 
2009 Ànima (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.32 (2009) … Himself
 
2007 Movie Connections (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Shakespeare in Love (2007) … Himself
 
2007 The 61st Annual Tony Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner: Best Play
 
2006 The King's Head: A Maverick in London (video documentary)
Himself
 
2004 The British Comedy Awards 2004 (TV special)
Himself - Presenter
 
2004 Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute (TV movie)
Himself
 
2003 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV special)
Himself
 
2001 The 55th Annual Tony Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter
 
1999 The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner: Best Original Screenplay
 
1999 Inside Hollywood: The Pictures, the People, the Academy Awards (TV documentary)
 
1999 Shakespeare in Love and on Film (TV documentary)
Himself - Co-Screenwriter
 
1998 Dear John: A Tribute to John Wells (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1986 The Late Clive James (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 3 May 1986 (1986) … Himself
 
1985 Journey Into Light (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1985 What Is Brazil? (TV documentary short)
Himself
 
1979 Friday Night, Saturday Morning (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.6 (1979) … Himself
 
1977-1979 The Newcomers (TV series)
Himself
– 1911 (1979) … Himself
– Prologue (1977) … Himself
 
1978 The South Bank Show (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Tom Stoppard (1978) … Himself
 
1978 This Is Your Life (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Richard Goolden (1978) … Himself
 
1972 Review (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 4 February 1972 (1972) … Himself
 
1967 One Pair of Eyes (TV series documentary)
Himself - Presenter
 
1964 The Newcomers (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Beginning (1964) … Himself
 

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[In 1968] A few miles away across the Channel, clashes between protesters and riot police were affairs of burning cars, overturned buses and buildings turned to rubble. Our own street-fighting man was only rock 'n' roll. See more »

Trivia:

When Stoppard's family (then named "Straussler") fled Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis, they stopped identifying as Jews. Stoppard was still a young child when this happened, and by the end of the war, his father had died and his mother had remarried to a British man named Kenneth Stoppard, who gave Tom his last name and insisted that the family's former Judaism be kept secret... See more »

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