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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 .
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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Anthony Joshua Shaffer (SHAF-ur) is best known for his play Sleuth , which reinvented the murder mystery by creating a new genre: the comedy thriller. He was born five minutes before his twin...
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 ...
Nov 11, 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...
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...
The twin brother of equally celebrated playwright, Peter Shaffer, Anthony Shaffer's name, despite his other achievements, inevitably evokes his famously twisty, two-hander, Sleuth (1970), triumphant on Broadway as well as in London, and in 1972 turned into a successful film, from his own screenplay.
