Person
Paddy Chayefsky
Writing · 1923–1981 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Philco Television Playhouse
Writer
The Oscars
Self
Film '72
Self
Goodyear Television Playhouse
Writer
Network
Writer
The Way We Were
Additional Writing
Altered States
Screenplay
The David Susskind Show
Self
Filmography
- 2020Sarah Cooper: Everything's FineThanks
- 1994The MotherWriter
- 1981Ein Zug nach ManhattanWriter
- 1980Altered StatesScreenplay
- 1976NetworkWriter
- 1973The Way We WereAdditional Writing
- 1971The HospitalOpening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1971Film '72Self
- 1971GideonTheatre Play
- 1969Paint Your WagonAdaptation
- 1968The Dick Cavett ShowSelf - Guest
- 1964The Americanization of EmilyScreenplay
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf
- 1959Middle of the NightScreenplay
- 1959The David Susskind ShowSelf
- 1958The GoddessScreenplay
- 1957The Bachelor PartyScreenplay
- 1956The Catered AffairTeleplay
- 1955MartyLeo (uncredited)
- 1954Middle of the NightWriter
- 1953The Bachelor PartyWriter
- 1953MartyWriter
- 1953The OscarsSelf
- 1951Goodyear Television PlayhouseWriter
- 1951As Young as You FeelStory
- 1948The Philco Television PlayhouseWriter
- 1947A Double LifePhotographer (uncredited)
- 1945The True GloryWriter
- —Altered StatesNovel
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