Neil Simon
Writing
Born July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received three Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959.
Filmography
They're Playing Our Song
Goodbye Shirazi Girl
Les Stars : Daniel Prévost & Jacques Balutin
Rumors
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Self
The Heartbreak Kid
California Suite
Sweet Charity
The Goodbye Girl
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Himself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Self
The Comics
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
Self
Panier de crabes
The Out-of-Towners
The Odd Couple II
Pitch
Self
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Self
London Suite
Caesar's Writers
Self
The Sunshine Boys
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Omaka par
Jake's Women
Sonny Boys
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Frasier
Andy (voice)
Lost in Yonkers
Broadway Bound
The Marrying Man
Rumeurs
Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
Himself
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Andy & Norman
Biloxi Blues
Omaka par
Plaza Suite
Drôle de couple
Brighton Beach Memoirs
My brother and friend I will kill you
The Slugger's Wife
The Lonely Guy
Max Dugan Returns
The New Odd Couple
Plaza Suite
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Barefoot In the Park
Pieds nus dans le parc
Only When I Laugh
Seems Like Old Times
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Chapter Two
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
The Good Doctor
The Cheap Detective
California Suite
The Goodbye Girl
Murder by Death
The Sunshine Boys
مخمخ و مشمش الثنائي المدهش
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Heartbreak Kid
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Star Spangled Girl
Plaza Suite
The Odd Couple
The Out-of-Towners
Alta comedia
Love, American Style
Sweet Charity
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Odd Couple
Barefoot in the Park
After the Fox
Come Blow Your Horn
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Holiday
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Paris in the Springtime
Babes in Toyland
Dearest Enemy
The Great Waltz
Heidi
The Desert Song
A Connecticut Yankee
Naughty Marietta
Babes in Toyland