What is Peter Shaffer?
{{Infobox person |name = Sir Peter Shaffer | image = Peter Shaffer, 1966.jpg | caption = 11 December 1966 |birth_name = Peter Levin Shaffer | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1926|5|15}}<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthdays today|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-15.html|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=12 May 2014|date=15 May 2013|quote=Sir Peter Shaffer, playwright, is 87|archive-date=28 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328070901/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-15.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]], United Kingdom | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2016|6|6|1926|5|15}} | death_place = [[County Cork]], [[Republic of Ireland]] |alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]] |occupation = [[Playwright]], [[screenwriter]] }} '''Sir Peter Levin Shaffer''' (15 May 1926 &ndash; 6 June 2016) was an [[English people|English]] playwright and screenwriter. He was known for his works in ''[[Equus]]'', ''[[Amadeus (movie)|Amadeus]]'', ''[[Black Comedy (1965 movie)|Black Comedy]]'', and in ''[[The Royal Hunt of the Sun]]''. He won an [[Academy Award]] and a [[Golden Globe Award]] for Best Screenwriter. Shaffer died on 6 June 2016 at the age of 90 while on a trip to the southwest of [[Ireland]].<ref name=death>{{cite web|title=Equus and Amadeus playwright Peter Shaffer dies aged 90 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/06/peter-shaffer-equus-amadeus-playwright-dies-aged-90|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=6 June 2016|date=6 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3627787/Equus-Amadeus-playwright-Peter-Shaffer-dies-90.html|title='Equus' and 'Amadeus' playwright Peter Shaffer dies at 90|publisher=}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{wikiquote-inline}} *{{IMDb name|0787323}} *{{IBDB name|8127}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaffer, Peter}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Academy Award winning writers]]