Voting Station

Tom Stoppard

Please vote to return to collections.

Playwright

The Resume

    (July 3, 1937- )
    Birth name is Tomáš Straussler
    Raised in India and England
    Wrote the plays ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967),’ ‘Jumpers (1972),’ ‘Travesties (1974),’ ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977),’ ‘Dogg’s Hamlet and Cahoot’s Macbeth (1979),’ ‘On the Razzle (1981),’ ‘The Real Thing (1982),’ ‘Hapgood (1988),’ ‘Arcadia (1993)’ and ‘The Invention of Love (1997)’
    Wrote or co-wrote screenplays for ‘Brazil (1985),’ ‘Empire of the Sun (1987)’ and ‘Shakespeare in Love (1998)’
    Knighted (1997)

Why he might be annoying:

    He’s a heavy smoker.
    He is known for his infidelities.
    He’s a vocal political activist.
    His plays are criticized as pretentious.
    He’s obsessed with William Shakespeare.
    It’s rumored he co-wrote George Lucas’s script for ‘Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith’ and let Lucas take solo credit.
    He looks like an older, fatter, more disheveled Chris Sarandon.

Why he might not be annoying:

    His plays are popular among both audiences and critics.
    In Hollywood, he is brought in as a ‘script doctor’ to secretly fix bad screenplays.
    He won three Tony Awards.
    His script for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ won an Oscar.
    Because they were Jewish, his family had to flee Czechoslovakia when the Nazis invaded.
    They went to Singapore, but had to leave immediately when that country was invaded by Japan.
    His father was killed during the war.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 22 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 58 Votes: 68.97% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 51 Votes: 74.51% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 68 Votes: 72.06% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 91 Votes: 65.93% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 137 Votes: 52.55% Annoying