Stoppard won five Tonys for Best Play and had a hand in penning screenplays for films like Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" and Terry Gilliam's "Brazil."

Sir Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88, was a playwright whose works combine dazzling verbal and theatrical flair with intellectual inquiry, and won him three Oliviers, five Tonies and an astonishing ...

He won a screenplay Oscar for the 1998 film Shakespeare In Love and worked on many other blockbuster films, including Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.