Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1923-01-29
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Paddy Chayefsky
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.
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as Writer
as Screenplay
as Adaptation
as Additional Writing
as Self
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Theatre Play
as Self
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Teleplay
as Self - Guest
as Theatre Play
as Screenplay
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