Neil Simon
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.
His first produced play was Come Blow Your Horn (1961). It took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successes, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965). He won a Tony Award for the latter. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway". From the 1960s to the 1980s he wrote for stage and screen; some of his screenplays were based on his own works for the stage. His style ranged from farce to romantic comedy to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three awards. In 1966, he had four successful productions running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 he became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor.
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Fotos
Películas (90)
Goodbye Shirazi Girl
2019 · Theatre Play
Les Stars : Daniel Prévost & Jacques Balutin
2015 · Writer
Djemtë Gazmorë
2014 · Writer
Rumors
2013 · Writer
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012 · Self
Barefoot in the Park
2010 · Writer
The Heartbreak Kid
2007 · Original Film Writer
California Suite
2007 · Author
Sweet Charity
2006 · Writer
The Goodbye Girl
2004 · Writer, Executive Producer
Ein seltsames Paar
2004 · Theatre Play
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
2003 · Himself
Хочу сниматься в кино
2002 · Writer
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002 · Self
The Comics
2002 · Theatre Play, Author
Οι ηλίθιοι
2001 · Writer
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
2001 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
2000 · Self
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
2000 · Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
2000 · Himself
Panier de crabes
1999 · Theatre Play
The Out-of-Towners
1999 · Original Story
Murder By Death - A Conversation with Neil Simon
1999 · Himself
The Odd Couple II
1998 · Screenplay, Producer
Pitch
1997 · Self
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
1997 · Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996 · Self
London Suite
1996 · Writer
Caesar's Writers
1996 · Self
The Sunshine Boys
1996 · Writer
Omaka par
1996 · Theatre Play
Jake's Women
1996 · Writer
Sonny Boys
1995 · Writer
Lost in Yonkers
1993 · Writer
Broadway Bound
1992 · Theatre Play, Writer
The Marrying Man
1991 · Writer
Rumeurs
1991 · Writer
Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
1990 · Himself
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1989 · Author
Andy & Norman
1989 · Theatre Play
Biloxi Blues
1988 · Screenplay, Theatre Play
Omaka par
1988 · Theatre Play
Plaza Suite
1987 · Writer
Drôle de couple
1987 · Writer
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
My brother and friend I will kill you
1986 · Story
The Slugger's Wife
1985 · Writer
The Lonely Guy
1984 · Adaptation
Max Dugan Returns
1983 · Writer, Producer
Sonny Boys
1982 · Theatre Play
Plaza Suite
1982 · Writer
I Ought to Be in Pictures
1982 · Theatre Play, Screenplay, Producer
Barefoot In the Park
1982 · Writer
Pieds nus dans le parc
1982 · Writer
Only When I Laugh
1981 · Screenplay, Producer, Theatre Play
Seems Like Old Times
1980 · Writer
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1980 · Novel
Chapter Two
1979 · Screenplay, Theatre Play
They're Playing Our Song
1979 · Author
The Good Doctor
1978 · Writer
The Cheap Detective
1978 · Writer
California Suite
1978 · Screenplay
The Goodbye Girl
1977 · Writer
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · Self
Murder by Death
1976 · Writer
The Sunshine Boys
1975 · Screenplay
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
The Heartbreak Kid
1972 · Screenplay
The Trouble With People
1972 · Writer, Executive Producer
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1972 · Screenplay
Star Spangled Girl
1971 · Theatre Play
Plaza Suite
1971 · Theatre Play, Writer
The Out-of-Towners
1970 · Writer
Sweet Charity
1969 · Musical
The Odd Couple
1968 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
Barefoot in the Park
1967 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
After the Fox
1966 · Theatre Play, Screenplay
Come Blow Your Horn
1963 · Theatre Play
Holiday
1956 · Teleplay
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1956 · Writer
Paris in the Springtime
1956 · Teleplay
Babes in Toyland
1955 · Adaptation
Dearest Enemy
1955 · Adaptation
The Great Waltz
1955 · Adaptation
Heidi
1955 · Adaptation
The Desert Song
1955 · Adaptation
A Connecticut Yankee
1955 · Adaptation
Naughty Marietta
1955 · Teleplay
Babes in Toyland
1954 · Adaptation
Series (15)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Frasier
1993 · Andy (voice)
The New Odd Couple
1982 · Theatre Play
Felix und Oskar
1980 · Characters
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979 · Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
The South Bank Show
1978
The Oddball Couple
1975 · Theatre Play
The Odd Couple
1970 · Creator
Alta comedia
1970 · Theatre Play
Love, American Style
1969 · Original Story
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self