He was an award-winning playwright whose witty works delighted generations.
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The self-described ‘bounced Czech’ created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion – and always understood the ways of our world
The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that looked at an implausible arcadia, an impossible utopia and affecting notions of home
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen – here are some of his very best
Stoppard's writing, often philosophical or scientific but consistently funny, gave rise to the term Stoppardian.
Stoppard won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love.”
To non-theatre-goers, Stoppard is best remembered for cinema work that included the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' franchises and an Oscar in 1999 for 'Shakespeare in Love'.
Tony-winning playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88.
The King and Queen said they were "deeply saddened" by the loss of "a dear friend".
