By Thomas MackintoshBBC News1 hour agoImage supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, David Seidler gained the Oscar for Greatest Authentic Screenplay for The King’s Speech in 2011David Seidler, finest recognized for writing the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech, has died aged 86.The London-born screenwriter, who had a stammer, introduced the true story of how King George VI overcame his speech obstacle to the large display screen.The 2010 movie starred Colin Firth, who additionally gained one of the best actor Bafta and Oscar for his depiction of the king.Seidler was additionally behind the stage adaptation of the movie, which opened within the West Finish in 2012.He devoted his 2011 Oscar to “all of the stutterers world wide” – and on the time thanked the Queen for “not placing me within the Tower for utilizing the F phrase”.Seidler’s supervisor Jeff Aghassi confirmed to the BBC he handed away on Saturday.”David was within the place he liked most on the planet – New Zealand – doing what gave him the best peace, which was fly fishing,” Mr Aghassi mentioned.”If given the possibility, it’s precisely as he would have scripted it.”Picture supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, David Seidler (fifth from left) stsands subsequent to actors together with Colin Firth (third from left) on the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards on the Beverly Hilton Resort in January 2011Throughout his profession Seidler wrote different tasks together with the animated youngsters’s musicals The King And I, Quest For Camelot and Madeline: Misplaced in Paris.Seidler gained his first Writers Guild award for the 1988 biopic Onassis: The Richest Man In The World starring Raul Julia because the Greek transport magnate Aristotle Onassis.He additionally co-wrote Francis Ford Coppola’s 1988 comedy drama Tucker: The Man And His Dream. However the King’s Speech was what he was finest recognized for. The plot follows the story of King George VI overcoming his extreme stutter and his sudden friendship with speech therapist Lionel Logue within the lead as much as World Warfare II. In February 2011 Seidler obtained two Bafta awards and months later in September he picked up a Humanitas Prize for his work. Mr Aghassi mentioned the West Finish stage model of The King’s Speech was translated to “greater than a half-dozen languages” together with Italian, Japanese and Spanish.It has been carried out on 4 continents – including its construct as much as being on Broadway was solely lower quick in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic. “David centered on the teachings of life, love, loss, and rebirth,” Mr Aghassi mentioned. “He continued to work on concepts that drew his curiosity, and on the time of his dying he had a number of tasks in lively improvement, together with documentary, restricted sequence, and have movies.”Extra reporting by Aruna Iyengar