Anthony Shaffer

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1926 age 0

   Born

2. 1972 age 46

   CreditFrenzyscreenwriter

   CreditSleuthscreenwriter

3. 1973 age 47

   CreditThe Wicker Manscreenwriter

4. 1974 age 48

   CreditMurder on the Orient Expressscreenwriter

5. 1978 age 52

   CreditDeath on the Nilescreenwriter

6. 2001 age 75

   Died

7. 2007 age 75

   CreditZeitgeist: The Movie

• RRRobert Riettii2 titles
• JFJon Finch2 titles
• JBJohn Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne2 titles
• RGRichard Goodwin2 titles
• NRNino Rota1 title
• IBIngrid Bergman1 title
• MCMichael Caine1 title
• MSMaggie Smith1 title
• CLChristopher Lee1 title
• GTGilbert Taylor1 title

• Spouse

  • DCDiane Cilento

• Siblings

  • PSPeter Shaffer

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without having watched a single regular-season football game all year. Some people watch the Super Bowl exclusively for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.

  Anthony Shaffer (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• Christmas sits like a black hole on the calendar, and the other holidays implied by "happy holidays"—Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, etc.—are powerless to be drawn in by its force.

  Anthony Shaffer (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• : You were disparaging my lover. </br> : On the contrary, I was reminiscing about my wife. </br> : It comes to the same thing. </br> : Things mostly do, you know.

  Anthony Shaffer (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• : I hear she's a scrubbed blonde with all the sex appeal of chilled Dettol. </br> : (with dignity) There are those who believe that cleanliness is next to sexiness.

  Anthony Shaffer (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• : You can take it from me that Tēa's an engaging little trollop, and she suits me mightily. Mind you, she takes a bit of keeping up with, it's a good thing I'm pretty much of an Olympic sexual athlete. </br> : I suppose these days you're concentrating on the sprints rather than on the long distance stuff. </br> : Not so, dear boy. I'm in the pink of condition. I could copulate for England at any distance. </br> : Well, they do say in Olympic circles, that the point is to take part, rather than to win, so I suppose there's hope for us all.

  Anthony Shaffer (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0

• : So she's used to luxury. Whose fault is that? </br> : It's not a fault if you can afford it. But can you?

  Anthony Shaffer (writer), CC BY-SA 4.0