AKA: Peter Anthony, Peter Levin Shaffer, Sir Peter Shaffer
Nationality: British
Birthdate: 05/15/1926
Birthplace: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
biography
This prominent British writer's best known film work includes the chilling psychodrama "Equus" (1977) and "Amadeus" (1984), the Oscar-winning account of the relationship between Mozart and his scheming rival, Salieri.Shaffer was a writer, critic, and novelist (with his brother Anthony Shaffer under the pseudonym Peter Anthony) before turning to the theatre with "Five Finger Exercise" in 1958. Among the works that followed where "The Royal Hunt of the Sun: A Play Concerning the Conquest of Peru" (1964), as well as "Equus" (1975) and "Amadeus" (1980) both of which won the Tony Award as Best Play
