David Seidler Net Worth: How Much Is David Seidler Worth?: British-American playwright and film and television writer, David Seidler, best known for writing the Oscar-winning film “The King’s Speech” has died. He was 86.
According to Seidler’s manager, Jeff Aghassi, the award-winning writer passed away on Saturday, March 16, 2024, but didn’t mention any cause making it unknown whether he battled any form of illness or died in an accident.
“David was in the place he loved most in the world – New Zealand – doing what gave him the greatest peace, which was fly fishing,” Mr Aghassi said. “If given the chance, it is exactly as he would have scripted it”
What Is David Seidler Net Worth?
Before David Seidler died in March 2024, he had an estimated net worth of about $15 million. He accumulated such fortune from his job as a playwright, and film and television writer.
Born in 1937, Seidler attended Cornell University. He moved to the US in the early days of World War Two and the London Blitz.
His early gigs included writing Japanese monster-movie translation dubs, and he broke into TV with the 1960s series Adventures of the Seaspray.
He won his first Writers Guild award for the 1988 biopic Onassis: The Richest Man In The World starring Raul Julia as the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
Seidler arrived in Hollywood at the age of 40. He co-wrote Francis Ford Coppola’s 1988 comedy-drama; “Tucker: The Man And His Dream”
Throughout his career, he wrote projects including the animated children’s musicals The King And I, Quest For Camelot, and Madeline: Lost in Paris.
In February 2011 Seidler received two Bafta awards and months later in September he picked up a Humanitas Prize for his work.
He dedicated his 2011 Oscar to “all the stutterers around the world” – and at the time thanked the Queen for “not putting me in the Tower for using the F word”.
Seidler was also behind the stage adaptation of the film, which opened in the West End in 2012.
Seidler is best known for writing the scripts for the stage version and screen version of the story The King’s Speech.
He brought the true story of how King George VI overcame his speech impediment to the big screen.
For the film, the London-born screenwriter won the Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay.
At the time of his death, he had multiple projects in active development, including documentary, limited series, and feature films”
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