Tom Stoppard
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Sir Tom Stoppard, (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. Born in Czechoslovakia, he is famous for plays such as Travesties.
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Works
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Novel
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Theatre
- 1964: A Walk on the Water
- 1965: The Gamblers, based on the novel The Gambler by Dostoevsky
- 1966: Tango, adapted from Sławomir Mrożek's play and Nicholas Bethell translation, premiered at the Aldwych Theatre
- 1966: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- 1968: Enter a Free Man . Developed from A Walk on the Water. First performed 28 March 1968.
- 1968: The Real Inspector Hound
- 1969: Albert's Bridge premiered at St. Mary's Hall in Edinburgh
- 1969: If You're Glad I'll Be Frank premiered at St. Mary's Hall in Edinburgh
- 1970: After Magritte frequently performed as a companion piece to The Real Inspector Hound
- 1971: Dogg's Our Pet premiered at the Almost Free Theatre
- 1972: Jumpers
- 1972: Artist Descending a Staircase
- 1974: Travesties
- 1976: Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land first performed on 6 April 1976
- 1977: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour was written at the request of André Previn. The play calls for full orchestra
- 1978: Night and Day
- 1979: Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth – two plays written to be performed together.
- 1979: 15-Minute Hamlet
- 1979: Undiscovered Country – an adaptation of Das Weite Land by the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler
- 1981: On the Razzle based on Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy
- 1982: The Real Thing
- 1983: English libretto for The Love for Three Oranges. Original opera by Sergei Prokofiev.
- 1984: Rough Crossing based on Play at the Castle by Ferenc Molnár
- 1986: Dalliance An adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei
- 1987: Largo Desolato, translation of a play by Václav Havel
- 1988: Hapgood
- 1993: Arcadia
- 1995: Indian Ink – based on Stoppard's radio play In The Native State
- 1997: The Invention of Love
- 1997: The Seagull – translation of the play by Anton Chekhov
- 2002: The Coast of Utopia is a trilogy of plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage
- 2004: Enrico IV (Henry IV) – translation of the Italian play by Luigi Pirandello First presented at the Donmar Theatre, London, in April 2004
- 2006: Rock 'n' Roll — first public performance 3 June 2006 preview at the Royal Court Theatre.
- 2010: The Laws of War — contributor to a collaborative piece for one-night benefit performance in support of Human Rights Watch.
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Original works for radio
- 1964: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot
- 1964: 'M' is for Moon Amongst Other Things
- 1966: If You’re Glad I’ll be Frank
- 1967: Albert's Bridge
- 1968: Where Are They Now?, written for schools radio
- 1972: Artist Descending a Staircase
- 1982: The Dog It Was That Died
- 1991: In the Native State, later expanded to become the stage play Indian Ink (1995)
- 2007: On Dover Beach
- 2012:Albert's Bridge, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, and In the Native State have been published by the British Library as Tom Stoppard Radio Plays
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Television plays
- A Separate Peace transmitted August 1966
- Teeth
- Another Moon Called Earth (containing some dialogue and situations later incorporated into Jumpers)
- Neutral Ground (a loose adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes)
- Professional Foul
- Squaring the Circle
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Film and television adaptation of plays and books
- 1975: Three Men in a Boat adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's novel for BBC Television
- 1975: The Boundary co-authored by Clive Exton, for the BBC
- 1985: Brazil co-authored with Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown, script nominated for an Academy Award
- 1987: Empire of the Sun first draft of the screenplay
- 1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade final rewrite of Jeffrey Boam's rewrite of Menno Meyjes's screenplay
- 1990: The Russia House screenplay for the 1990 film of the John Le Carre Novel
- 1990: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead – won the Golden Lion and which he also directed
- 1998: Shakespeare in Love co-authored with Marc Norman; script won an Academy Award
- 1998: Poodle Springs teleplay adaptation of the novel by Robert B. Parker and Raymond Chandler
- 2001: Enigma film screenplay of the Robert Harris novel
- 2005: The Golden Compass a draft screenplay, subsequently rejected
- 2012: Parade's End, television screenplay for BBC/HBO of Ford Madox Ford's series of novels
- 2012: Anna Karenina, film screenplay of the Leo Tolstoy novel
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