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Paddy Chayefsky
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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"…
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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.
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2020
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Movie Thanks
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1994
The Mother
Movie Writer
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1981
Uprostred noci
Movie Theatre Play
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1981
Ein Zug nach Manhattan
Movie Writer
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1980
Altered States
Movie Novel
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1976
Network
Movie Writer
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1973
The Way We Were
Movie Additional Writing
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1971
The Hospital
Movie Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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1971
Film '72
TV show Self
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1971
Gideon
Movie Theatre Play
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Movie Adaptation
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1964
The Americanization of Emily
Movie Screenplay
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1959
Middle of the Night
Movie Screenplay
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1959
The David Susskind Show
TV show Self
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1958
The Goddess
Movie Screenplay
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1957
The Bachelor Party
Movie Story
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1956
The Catered Affair
Movie Teleplay
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1955
Marty
Movie Leo (uncredited)
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1954
Middle of the Night
Movie Writer
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1953
The Bachelor Party
Movie Writer
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1953
Marty
Movie Writer
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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1951
Goodyear Television Playhouse
TV show Writer
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1951
As Young as You Feel
Movie Story
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1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV show Writer
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1947
A Double Life
Movie Photographer (uncredited)
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1945
The True Glory
Movie Writer
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Altered States
Movie Novel
