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Ronald Harwood
South African dramatist and playwright
1934 – 2020aged 85
A South African-born playwright and screenwriter who turned the true story of a tyrannical theatre actor and his put-upon dresser into The Dresser, earning an Oscar nomination, and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Pianist (2002), Roman Polanski's account of a Jewish musician's survival in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was also nominated for adapting The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.