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Mar 18, 2024 · David Seidler, Oscar-winning writer of The King’s Speech, dies at 86. The British screenwriter earned several accolades for the 2010 film, including two BAFTA's and an Academy Award.
David Seidler, best known for his Academy Award-winning writing on The King’s Speech, died on Saturday, March 16 while on a fly-fishing expedition in New Zealand. He was 86 and no cause was given.
The King's Speech follows the young King George VI -- the father of the current Queen Elizabeth II -- as he reluctantly assumes the throne after his brother, Edward, abdicates. Considered unfit to rule and cursed with a nervous stammer, the unprepared monarch turns to an unorthodox speech therapist, Lionel Logue.
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Mar 17, 2024 · March 17, 2024 2:04 PM PT. David Seidler, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the acclaimed 2010 drama “The King’s Speech,” has died. He was 86. Seidler’s manager, Jeff Aghassi, told The ...
Mar 18, 2024 · David Seidler —screenwriter for ... This admiration would later inspire his script for The King’s Speech, which won him an Oscar in 2011. The 2010 film, directed by Tom Hooper and starring ...
Feb 4, 2011 · David Seidler, ‘The King’s Speech’ ... What we both wanted to avoid at all costs was the sense of a filmed stage play because that never works out. Tom Stoppard directed his own version of ...
The King's Speech play: At last, my crowning moment... by David Seidler. "Oh you can't always get what you want/ No, you can't always get what you want/ But if you try sometimes you just might find/ You get what you need." So sang Sir Mick and his Perambulating Pebbles. I should've paid attention.
