Tom Stoppard
Known for: Writing
Born: July 3, 1937
Died: November 29, 2025
Place of birth: Zlín, Czechoslovakia
Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL Hon FBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937 — 29 November 2025) was a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical thematics of society. Stoppard had been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. Stoppard died at his home in Dorset, England on 29 November 2025 at the age of 88. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Stoppard, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
44 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
7.3
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
2023
8.8
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
2022
NR
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021NR
A Separate Peace
2020
NR
Arcadia
2018
7.5
Spielberg
2017
6.5
Tulip Fever
2017
6.3
National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
2017
7.3
National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem
2015
6.2
Wilde Salomé
2013
6.7
Anna Karenina
2012
6.5
Parade's End
2012
6.5
The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited
2011
NR
André Previn - A Bridge between two Worlds
2009
6.6
What Is Brazil?
2008
NR
The Merchant of Venice
2005
6.6
The Lion King 1½
2004
NR
The Invention of Love
2001
6.3
Enigma
2001
6.8
Shakespeare in Love
1998
5.5
Poodle Springs
1998
NR
Oscar
1997
7.2
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1995
5.8
Billy Bathgate
1991
6.9
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
6.1
The Russia House
19908.0
Largo Desolato
1990
5.0
The Dog It Was That Died
1989
7.5
Empire of the Sun
1987
7.7
Brazil
1985
5.0
Squaring the Circle
1984
8.0
On the Razzle
1983
5.8
The Human Factor
1979
NR
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1979
7.5
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
6.5
Despair
1978
7.5
Professional Foul
1977
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
6.0
Bukovsky
19777.0
Travesties
1976
6.1
Three Men in a Boat
197510.0
The Boundary
1975
5.4
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
7.0
Playhouse
19748.0
Neutral Ground
1968
7.2
Omnibus
1967
7.0
ITV Playhouse
19679.0
Another Moon Called Earth
1967
7.0
One Pair of Eyes
1967
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965NR
Knock on Any Door
1965
9.0
In-Side-Out
1964
NR
Tony Awards
1956NR
A Christmas Carol
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