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".
Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang (12 June 1922 – 19 December 2014) was a British Professor of Philosophy and hereditary peer. Strang was the only son of William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, a diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953, and was subsequently the first Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords from 1968 to 1974. Strang was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Queens University, Belfast from 1951 to 1953 and at King's College, Newcastle from 1953 to 1975. He was Professor of Philosophy at