Overview
- United Agents said he died peacefully at his home in Dorset at age 88, surrounded by family.
- He won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for the screenplay to Shakespeare in Love.
- A defining playwright across six decades, his hallmark works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia and Leopoldstadt.
- His screen work ranged from Brazil and Empire of the Sun to Anna Karenina, and his 1990 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead film won the Golden Lion in Venice.
- He amassed five Tony Awards and three Oliviers and was knighted in 1997, with reports saying London’s West End plans to dim its lights in tribute.