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Peter Shaffer (1926–2016)
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.
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Born:in Liverpool, England, UKDied:(age 90) in County Cork, Ireland |
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Writer (25 credits)
Writer (25 credits)
1998
Midsomer Murders
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- Death of a Hollow Man
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Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
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Self (11 credits)
Self (11 credits)
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Archive footage (2 credits)
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His play, "Black Comedy," was performed in an American Conservatory Theatre production in San Francisco, California. James Edmondson was director. See more »Alternate Names:
Sir Peter Shaffer
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[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). I have never forgotten it or moved far from the sense of wonder it provided and a ... See more »Trivia:
His partner Robert Leonard died in 1990. See more »Star Sign:
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