 The twin brother of equally celebrated playwright, Peter Shaffer, Anthony Shaffer's name, despite his other achievements, inevitably evokes his famously twisty, two-hander, Sleuth (1970), triumphant on Broadway as well as in London, and in 1972 turned into a successful film, from his own screenplay. A former barrister, Cambridge-educated Shaffer also wrote screenplays for Hitchcock's return to England, Frenzy (1972), for the very unsettling horror piece, The Wicker Man (d. Robin Hardy, 1973), and the Agatha Christie adaptations, enjoyably star-studded Death on the Nile (d. John Guillermin, 1978) and Evil Under the Sun (d. Guy Hamilton, 1981) and abysmal Appointment with Death (US, d. Michael Winner, 1988). His second wife was Diane Cilento (1985 till his death). He and his brother wrote novels together under the name Peter Anthony. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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