Peter Shaffer screenplay for "Equus", he was nominated for the 1977 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar but the award went to Alvin Sargent, who wrote the screenplay for "Julia". For writing the screenplay for "Amadeus", Shaffer received both the 1984 Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the 1984 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Shaffer was homosexual but did not write explicitly about it. His boyfriend Robert Leonard died in 1990. Shaffer died on June 6, 2016, at the age of ninety while on a trip to the south-west of Ireland. He co-wrote three detective novels with his brother Anthony Shaffer under the pseudonym "Peter Antony".
The World of Suzie Wong (play) The World of Suzie Wong (play) The World of Suzie Wong is an award-winning 1958-premiered stage play, adapted from the eponymous 1957 novel by Richard Mason, "The World of Suzie Wong". The play was in turn adapted into the 1960 Hollywood British-American feature film "The World of Suzie Wong". The novel was adapted into a play by playwright Paul Osborn. It is one of the major elements of the Suzie Wong franchise. The play dramatizes the story of the eponymous Richard Mason novel, "The World of Suzie Wong", upon which it is based. The play opened for the 1958-1959 Broadway