Paddy Chayefsky
- Writing
- January 29, 1923 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
- August 1, 1981
Biography
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay for "Marty" (1955), "The Hospital" (1971), and "Network" (1976). He is the only person to have won both the Academy Awards for adapted and original screenplays. He was one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television. His intimate, realistic scripts provided a naturalistic style of television drama for the 1950s, dramatizing the lives of ordinary Americans.
Known for
Filmography
- Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine · Thanks
- The Mother · Writer
- Uprostred noci · Theatre Play
- Ein Zug nach Manhattan · Writer
- Altered States · Novel, Screenplay
- Network · Writer
- The Way We Were · Additional Writing
- The Hospital · Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Writer
- Film '72 · Self
- Gideon · Theatre Play
- Paint Your Wagon · Adaptation
- The Dick Cavett Show · Self
- The Americanization of Emily · Screenplay
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- Middle of the Night · Screenplay, Theatre Play
- The David Susskind Show · Self
- The Goddess · Screenplay
- Monitor
- The Bachelor Party · Story, Screenplay
- The Catered Affair · Teleplay
- Marty · Leo (uncredited), Screenplay
- Middle of the Night · Writer
- The Bachelor Party · Writer
- Marty · Writer
- The Oscars · Self
- Goodyear Television Playhouse · Writer
- As Young as You Feel · Story
- The Philco Television Playhouse · Writer
- A Double Life · Photographer (uncredited)
- The True Glory · Writer
- Altered States · Novel