David Seidler, who won the Oscar Award for writing the 2010 film The King’s Speech, died on Saturday at age 86.
Longtime manager Jeff Aghassi said that Seidler died while fly-fishing, one of his favorite activities.
“David was in the place he loved most in the world — New Zealand — doing what gave him the greatest peace, which was fly-fishing,” Aghassi said in a statement.
Seidler’s screen career started nearly 60 years ago when he wrote episodes for the Australia TV series “Adventures of the Seaspray.”
In the 1980s, he scripted episodes of the Days of Our Lives, Another World, and General Hospital.
Seidler is also renowned for his biopic work, having co-written the TV movies Malice in Wonderland (starring Elizabeth Taylor) and Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (starring Raul Julia) and the feature film Tucker: The Man and His Dream (starring Jeff Bridges).
