David Seidler was born on 1937 and is a British-American playwright and film and television writer.
10 Facts About David Seidler
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David Seidler is most known for writing the scripts for the stage version and screen version for the story The King's Speech.
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David Seidler grew up in an upper-middle class Jewish family.
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David Seidler's mother Doris was a print-maker and graphic artist.
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David Seidler's father Bernard was a fur broker who bought bales of pelts on commission.
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David Seidler believes that his stutter might have been a response to the emotional trauma of the war.
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David Seidler arrived in Hollywood at the age of 40, and his first job there was writing Tucker: The Man and His Dream for Francis Ford Coppola.
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Always wanting to write about George VI, and being a stutterer himself, David Seidler started researching in the 1970s.
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The Queen Mother died in 2002, but David Seidler didn't start the work until 2005, when he suffered from throat cancer, and returned to the story during a bout of creative work it inspired.
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In late 2005 David Seidler was diagnosed with bladder cancer, but as of 2011, he was in remission.