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Mr. Seidler told the site filmcritic.com<\/a> that his parents, aiming to inspire him, tuned the family radio to George VI\u2019s speeches during the war as object lessons of mastering a stutter.<\/p>\n \u201cThey would say to me, \u2018David, he was a much worse stutterer than you, and listen to him now. He\u2019s not perfect. But he can give these magnificent, stirring addresses that rallied the free world,\u2019\u201d Mr. Seidler said.<\/p>\n At 16, he recalled, he had a \u201cprofanity-laden, F-bomb-filled emotional catharsis\u201d like one that King George, who was known as \u201cBertie,\u201d his childhood nickname, experiences in the film. \u201cI thought that if I\u2019m stuck with stuttering, you\u2019re all stuck with listening with me,\u201d he told The Times, inserting an expletive.<\/p>\n Soon after, his stutter faded away in conversations.<\/p>\n David Seidler was born on Aug. 4, 1937, in London, to Doris (Falkoff) Seidler, a painter and printmaker, and Bernard Seidler, a fur broker. He graduated from Cornell University in 1959. He is survived by two adult children, Marc and Maya Seidler.<\/p>\n The screenplay of \u201cThe King\u2019s Speech\u201d gestated with Mr. Seidler for decades. In interviews<\/a>, he said he had set the project aside for years until after the death in 2002 of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, widow of George VI, who had asked him not to pursue it in her lifetime.<\/p>\n