Playwright and screenwriter whose hit play, The Dresser, drew on his experiences of working with the actor-manager Donald WolfitRonald Harwood, who has died aged 85, was an indefatigably hard-working playwright, novelist and screenwriter, who won an Oscar for best screenplay for The Pianist (2002), his adaptation of WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Szpilman's book about surviving the Warsaw ghetto. He first made a serious impressio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM on September 9, 2020