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Peter Shaffer

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Educated St Paul's School & Trinity College, Cambridge. Worked in Aquisitions Dept. of New York Public Library and for music publisher Boosey & Hawkes before finding fame as playwright. See full bio »

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Peter Levin Shaffer
in Liverpool, England, UK
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1999 O Poder da Górgone (TV movie) (play)
 
1998 Midsomer Murders (TV series)
– Death of a Hollow Man (1998) (extracts from "Amadeus" by)
 
1997 O Fusível (TV movie) (play)
 
1984 Amadeus (original screenplay / original stage play)
 
1984 Amadeus (TV movie) (play)
 
1978 I askisi pente daktylon (TV movie) (play "Five Finger Exercise")
 
1977 Equus (play / screenplay)
 
1974 Noche de teatro (TV series)
– Ejercicio para cinco dedos (1974) (play)
 
1972 The Public Eye (play / screenplay)
 
1970 BBC Play of the Month (TV series)
– Five Finger Exercise (1970) (play)
 
1969 The Royal Hunt of the Sun (play)
 
1967 The Private Ear (TV movie) (one-act play)
 
1966 The Pad and How to Use It (play "The Private Ear")
 
1965 BBC 3 (TV series)
 
1962 Five Finger Exercise (play)
 
1960 Terror in der Waage (TV movie) (play)
 
1955 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
– The Salt Land (1955) (writer)
 
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1984 Amadeus (supervisor - 2002 director's cut)
 
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2002 The Making of 'Amadeus' (video documentary) (thanks)
 
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2007 Fog City Mavericks (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 The Making of 'Amadeus' (video documentary)
Himself - Writer
 
1997 Great Composers (TV series documentary)
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 (1997)
 
1988 The Evening Standard Drama Awards (TV movie)
Himself
 
1985 The 57th Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary)
Himself - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
 
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(1970) Playwright: "The Battle Of Shrivings" See more »

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1 Interview  | 1 Article  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Sir Peter Shaffer
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Personal Quote:

[on using LSD] It was a transporting experience, expressed in very concrete images, places and periods. It involved both generic pictures [from China and the Congo] and more strictly autobiographical ones (a book-laden boy in perhaps 1850 walking to Hebrew School through a labyrinth of alleys, perhaps in Kiev)... See more »

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Born at 9:35am-BST See more »

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Taurus