THE WORLD
Updated Monday, March 18, 2024-09:50
This Saturday the British-American screenwriter David Seidler
died
at the age of 87.
The winner of an Oscar for his work in
'The King's Speech'
has died in New Zealand while he was fishing, as confirmed to the BBC by his manager
Jeff Aghassi
.
"David was in the place he loved most in the world, New Zealand, doing what gave him the most peace, which was fly fishing. If he had the chance, it's exactly how he would have written it," Aghassi explained.
His great success, 'The King's Speech', with which he won the Oscar in 2011 for Best Original Screenplay, also won awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor.
That year he also won two
BAFTA awards
.
The film tells the life of
King George VI
of England, a monarch who, like Seidler as a child, was a stutterer.
"To tell the story correctly, I had to immerse myself again in the experience of being a stutterer. That meant returning to the pain and isolation I knew as a child," the screenwriter told 'Times' in 2011.
Seidler, who emigrated to the United States at the beginning of the
Second World War
, has also written the scripts for the films 'Onassis: the richest man in the world' (1988) and 'Tucker, a man and his dream' (1988).
Additionally, he wrote several animated children's musicals: 'The King And I', 'Quest For Camelot' and 'Madeline: Lost in Paris'.