Peter Shaffer 1990. "Lettice and Lovage" also enabled Margaret Tyzack to win the award for best featured actress, and the production was nominated for best direction of a play, at the 1990 Tony Awards. Several of Shaffer's plays have been adapted to film, including "Five Finger Exercise" (1962), "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1969), "The Public Eye" (1962), from which he adapted the 1972 film "Follow Me!" (1972), "Equus" (1977), and "Amadeus" (1984), which won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture. Shaffer received two Academy Award nominations for adapting his plays "Equus" and "Amadeus" for the big screen. For writing the
William Strang wrote short stories but these were not published. William married Agnes McSymon Rogerson (d.1933), also from Dumbarton, in 1885. They had four sons and one daughter. His sons Ian Strang (1886-1952) and David Strang (1887-1967) were both artists. William had at least one granddaughter, Joan Strang, born of David's short-lived marriage to the English soprano Dora Labbette. In 1955 David Strang gifted the bulk of William Strang's etchings to the National Gallery of Scotland, many of which were annotated by David for clarification on subject matter. William Strang William Strang RA (13 February 1859 – 12 April 1921) was a