Writing · geboren 1937-07-13 · London, England, UK

David Seidler

David Seidler (4 August 1937 – 16 March 2024) was a British playwright and screenwriter. His first job in Hollywood was writing Tucker: The Man and His Dream for Francis Ford Coppola. In the early 1980s Seidler started working on a stage version of The King's Speech, but after receiving a letter from the Queen Mother's private secretary asking him not to pursue the project during her lifetime, he abandoned it. He returned to the story in 2005, this time developing it as a screenplay. The script was eventually produced as the 2010 feature film The King's Speech, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth as King George VI, for which he won he won an Academy Award.

Bekannt aus

• The King’s Speech - Die Rede des Königs (2010) – Screenplay
• Das magische Schwert - Die Legende von Camelot (1998) – Screenplay
• Tucker (1988) – Screenplay
• Der König und ich (1999) – Screenplay
• Madeline verschollen in Paris (1999) – Writer
• Kung Fu Killer (2008) – Writer
• Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988) – Writer
• Son of the Dragon (2008) – Teleplay
• Verrücktes Hollywood (1985) – Teleplay
• Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (1998) – Writer
• LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change (2024) – Executive Producer
• By Dawn's Early Light (2001) – Writer
• Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica (1993) – Writer
• Schuld und Fluch (1988) – Writer
• Glaub mir! (1995) – Writer
• Lies He Told (1997) – Story
• Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (1999) – Writer
• Soraya (2003) – Teleplay
• Time to Say Goodbye? (1997) – Writer
• The Last Ecstatic Days (2023) – Executive Producer
• Kung Fu Killer (2008) – Writer