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Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 and screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Though primarily a comic writer, some of his plays, particularly the Eugene Trilogy
Eugene Trilogy

The Eugene Trilogy refers to three plays written by Neil Simon: the first being Brighton Beach Memoirs, the second is Biloxi Blues, and the third being Broadway Bound....
 and The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway theatre in 1972 and later adapted for film and television.It focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudeville team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-...
, reflect on the twentieth century Jewish-American experience.

n was born in The Bronx
The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the Five Boroughs of New York City and the newest of the 62 Administrative divisions of New York#county of New York State....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 to Irving and Mamie Simon where after attending De Witt Clinton High School, he briefly attended New York University
New York University

New York University is a private university, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan....
 from 1944 to 1945 and the University of Denver
University of Denver

The University of Denver , founded in 1864 is the oldest private university university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. The University of Denver is a coeducational, four-year university in Denver, Colorado, Colorado....
 from 1945 to 1946.






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Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 and screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Though primarily a comic writer, some of his plays, particularly the Eugene Trilogy
Eugene Trilogy

The Eugene Trilogy refers to three plays written by Neil Simon: the first being Brighton Beach Memoirs, the second is Biloxi Blues, and the third being Broadway Bound....
 and The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway theatre in 1972 and later adapted for film and television.It focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudeville team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-...
, reflect on the twentieth century Jewish-American experience.

Biography


Early years

Simon was born in The Bronx
The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the Five Boroughs of New York City and the newest of the 62 Administrative divisions of New York#county of New York State....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 to Irving and Mamie Simon where after attending De Witt Clinton High School, he briefly attended New York University
New York University

New York University is a private university, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan....
 from 1944 to 1945 and the University of Denver
University of Denver

The University of Denver , founded in 1864 is the oldest private university university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. The University of Denver is a coeducational, four-year university in Denver, Colorado, Colorado....
 from 1945 to 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon
Danny Simon

Danny Simon was an American television writer and comedy teacher. He was also older brother to acclaimed American playwright Neil Simon.The elder Simon wrote for television shows including Your Show of Shows, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Phil Silvers Show, Make Room for Daddy, My Three Sons, The Carol Burnett Show,...
, including a tutelage under radio comedy legend Goodman Ace
Goodman Ace

Goodman Ace In a twist that could have been one of his own plot lines, Ace's broadcasting career happened by accident, thanks to one night of bridge and a following night of absenteeism, by the show that followed his wry movie reviews on a Kansas City radio station....
 when Ace ran a short-lived writing workshop for CBS. Their revues for Camp Tamiment in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
 in the early 1950s caught the attention of Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
, who hired the duo for his popular TV comedy series Your Show of Shows
Your Show of Shows

Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute sketch comedy television series appearing weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950 until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca....
. Simon later incorporated their experiences into his play Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a play by Neil Simon.Inspired by Simon's early career experience as a junior jokesmith for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a r...
. His work won him two Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 nominations and the appreciation of Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
, who hired him to write for his sitcom in 1959.

Career

In 1961, Simon's first Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 play, Come Blow Your Horn
Come Blow Your Horn

Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first Play , which premiered in the United States in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre....
, opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Brooks Atkinson Theatre

The Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a Broadway theatre theater located at 256 West 47th Street in New York City.Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it was constructed as the Mansfield Theatre by the Chanin brothers in 1926....
, where it ran for 678 performances. Six weeks after its closing, his second production, the musical Little Me
Little Me

Little Me was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of "Belle Poitrine" , subtitled The Intimate Memoirs of the Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame....
 opened to mixed reviews. Although it failed to attract a large audience, it earned Simon his first Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 nomination. Overall, he has garnered seventeen Tony nominations and won three. He has also won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year....
 for Lost In Yonkers
Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers is a 1991 play by Neil Simon. After eleven Preview , the Broadway theatre production, directed by Gene Saks, opened on February 21 1991 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 780 performances....
.

In 1966 Simon had four shows running on Broadway at the same time: Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity is a Musical theater with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria....
, The Star-Spangled Girl
The Star-Spangled Girl

The Star-Spangled Girl is a comedy written by Neil Simon. The play, set in the San Francisco in the 1960s, concerns three characters: Andy, Norman and Sophie....
, The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple was a 1965 Broadway Play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors....
, and Barefoot in the Park
Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park is a play by Neil Simon.Its focus is on newlywed couple Corie and Paul Bratter, who are setting up house in a minuscule fifth-floor walkup apartment in a downtown-Manhattan brownstone....
. His portfolio also includes darker, more autobiographical
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
 works, Chapter Two
Chapter Two

Chapter Two is a play written by Neil Simon. The play tells the story of a man whose first wife's death interferes with his starting a new relationship....
 and the Eugene Trilogy
Eugene Trilogy

The Eugene Trilogy refers to three plays written by Neil Simon: the first being Brighton Beach Memoirs, the second is Biloxi Blues, and the third being Broadway Bound....
 (made up of Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a play by Neil Simon. It was made into a movie that was released in 1986.Set in Brooklyn, New York's Brighton Beach in 1937, the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy is the first play in what is known as Simon's "Eugene Trilogy." The small cast consists of Eugene, his brother Stanley and their parents Kat...
, Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues is a 1988 in film United States comedy film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his semi-autobiography Biloxi Blues ....
 and Broadway Bound
Broadway Bound

Broadway Bound is a Play by Neil Simon. Last one in a series of three, together with the other autobiographical works , they make up the "Eugene Trilogy."...
), and his books for musical comedies, including the aforementioned Sweet Charity and Promises, Promises
Promises, Promises

Promises, Promises is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....
.

He has also written screenplays for more than twenty films. These include adaptations of his own plays as well as original work, including The Out-of-Towners
The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners may refer to:* The Out-of-Towners , a 1970 feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis* The Out-of-Towners , a 1999 remake of the 1970 film starring Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin...
, Murder by Death
Murder by Death

Murder by Death is a comedy movie written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore . The plot is a parody of the traditional country house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans from classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a form also parodied for the stage in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound....
 and The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
. He has received four Best Screenplay Academy Award nominations.

Simon has been conferred with two honoris causa degrees; a Doctor of Humane Letters
Doctor of Humane Letters

The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters is always conferred as an honorary degree, usually to those who have distinguished themselves in areas other than science , government , literature or religion ....
 from Hofstra University
Hofstra University

Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead , New York, and the hamlet of Uniondale on Long Island, New York ....
 and a Doctor of Laws
Doctor of Laws

Doctor of Laws is a doctorate-level academic degree in law. What follows is a country-by-country analysis of earned doctorates in law, which are the most analogous to the concept of the LL.D....
 from Williams College
Williams College

Williams College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.Williams was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams as a men's college, located in the Berkshires in northwestern Massachusetts, at the foot of Mount Greylock....
. He is the namesake of the legitimate Broadway theater the Neil Simon Theatre
Neil Simon Theatre

The Neil Simon Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 250 West 52nd Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....
, formerly the Alvin Theatre, and an honorary member of the Walnut Street Theatre
Walnut Street Theatre

The Walnut Street Theatre , located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 825 Walnut Street , is the oldest continuously operating theatre in the English-speaking world and the oldest in the United States....
's board of trustees.

Personal life

Simon has been married five times, to dancer Joan Baim (1953-1973), actress Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
 (1973-1981), twice to Diane Lander (1987-1988 and 1990-1998), and currently actress Elaine Joyce
Elaine Joyce

Elaine Joyce is an United States stage and television actress....
. He is the father of Nancy and Ellen, from his first marriage, and Bryn, Lander's daughter from a previous relationship whom he adopted.

Awards

  • 1965 Tony Award for Best Author - The Odd Couple
  • 1967 Evening Standard Award - Barefoot in the Park
  • 1978 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay - The Goodbye Girl
  • 1985 Tony Award for Best Play - Biloxi Blues
  • 1989 American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement
  • 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play - Lost in Yonkers
  • 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Lost in Yonkers
  • 1991 Tony Award for Best Play - Lost in Yonkers
  • 1995 Kennedy Center Honoree
    Kennedy Center Honors

    The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for theirlifetime of contributions to Culture of the United States....
  • 2006 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor


Work


Plays

  • Come Blow Your Horn
    Come Blow Your Horn

    Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first Play , which premiered in the United States in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre....
     (1961)
  • Little Me
    Little Me

    Little Me was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of "Belle Poitrine" , subtitled The Intimate Memoirs of the Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame....
     (1962)
  • Barefoot in the Park
    Barefoot in the Park

    Barefoot in the Park is a play by Neil Simon.Its focus is on newlywed couple Corie and Paul Bratter, who are setting up house in a minuscule fifth-floor walkup apartment in a downtown-Manhattan brownstone....
     (1963)
  • The Odd Couple
    The Odd Couple

    The Odd Couple was a 1965 Broadway Play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors....
     (1965)
  • Sweet Charity
    Sweet Charity

    Sweet Charity is a Musical theater with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria....
     (1966)
  • The Star-Spangled Girl
    The Star-Spangled Girl

    The Star-Spangled Girl is a comedy written by Neil Simon. The play, set in the San Francisco in the 1960s, concerns three characters: Andy, Norman and Sophie....
     (1966)
  • Plaza Suite
    Plaza Suite

    Plaza Suite is a play by Neil Simon.It is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel....
     (1968)
  • Promises, Promises
    Promises, Promises

    Promises, Promises is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....
     (1968)
  • The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
    The Last of the Red Hot Lovers

    The Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a play by Neil Simon.At the comedy's core is Barney Cashman, a middle-aged, married nebbish who wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late....
     (1969)
  • The Gingerbread Lady
    The Gingerbread Lady

    The Gingerbread Lady is a 1970 play by Neil Simon, written specifically for actor Maureen Stapleton, who won both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance....
     (1970)
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue
    The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an United States comedic Play written by famed playwright Neil Simon. The play was later made into a movie that was released in 1975....
     (1971)
  • The Sunshine Boys
    The Sunshine Boys

    The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway theatre in 1972 and later adapted for film and television.It focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudeville team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-...
     (1972)
  • The Good Doctor (1973)
  • God's Favorite
    God's Favorite

    God's Favorite is a play by Neil Simon, loosely based on the Bible Book of Job. It was published in 1974.The setting of the play is a Long Island mansion, where dwells a pious, God-fearing tycoon named Joe Benjamin and his family: a long-suffering wife, Rose, a prodigal son, David, a pair of kooky twins, Ben and Sarah, and the maid and...
     (1974)
  • California Suite
    California Suite

    California Suite is a 1976 Play by Neil Simon about five couples, all set in one hotel suite in California. It is a bittersweet comedy. The first couple hail from New York City and are engaged in a custody battle....
     (1976)
  • Chapter Two (1977)
  • They're Playing Our Song
    They're Playing Our Song

    They're Playing Our Song is a musical theatre with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.In a story based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager, a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but initially the match is not one made in heaven....
     (1979)
  • I Ought to Be in Pictures
    I Ought to Be in Pictures

    I Ought to Be in Pictures is a play by Neil Simon.The three-character comedy-drama focuses on Herb, a struggling, Writer's block screenwriter who abandoned his family sixteen years earlier....
     (1980)
  • Fools
    Fools (play)

    Fools is a light-hearted romantic comedy by Neil Simon, set in the small village of Kulyenchikov, Ukraine , during the late 1800s.The Broadway theatre production, directed by Mike Nichols, opened on April 6 1981 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre....
     (1981)
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Brighton Beach Memoirs

    Brighton Beach Memoirs is a play by Neil Simon. It was made into a movie that was released in 1986.Set in Brooklyn, New York's Brighton Beach in 1937, the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy is the first play in what is known as Simon's "Eugene Trilogy." The small cast consists of Eugene, his brother Stanley and their parents Kat...
     (1983)
  • Biloxi Blues
    Biloxi Blues

    Biloxi Blues is a 1988 in film United States comedy film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his semi-autobiography Biloxi Blues ....
     (1985)
  • The Odd Couple
    The Odd Couple

    The Odd Couple was a 1965 Broadway Play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors....
     (Female version, 1986)
  • Broadway Bound
    Broadway Bound

    Broadway Bound is a Play by Neil Simon. Last one in a series of three, together with the other autobiographical works , they make up the "Eugene Trilogy."...
     (1986)
  • Rumors
    Rumors

    Rumors is a farce play by Neil Simon.At its start, several affluent couples gather in the posh suburban residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their tenth anniversary....
     (1988)
  • Lost in Yonkers
    Lost in Yonkers

    Lost in Yonkers is a 1991 play by Neil Simon. After eleven Preview , the Broadway theatre production, directed by Gene Saks, opened on February 21 1991 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 780 performances....
     (1991)
  • Jake's Women
    Jake's Women

    Jake's Women is a play by Neil Simon. It centers on Jake, a writer with a struggling marriage. Jake talks to many of the women he knows, both in real life and in his imagination, as he works to save his marriage....
     (1992)
  • The Goodbye Girl
    The Goodbye Girl (musical)

    The Goodbye Girl is a musical theatre with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by David Zippel, and music by Marvin Hamlisch, based on Simon's original screenplay for the The Goodbye Girl....
     (1993)
  • Laughter on the 23rd Floor
    Laughter on the 23rd Floor

    Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a play by Neil Simon.Inspired by Simon's early career experience as a junior jokesmith for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a r...
     (1993)
  • London Suite
    London Suite

    London Suite is a play by Neil Simon, later made into a 1996 Made-for-TV movie. It is in a similar style to Simon's earlier works: Plaza Suite and California Suite....
     (1995)
  • Proposals
    Proposals (play)

    Proposals is a Play by Neil Simon.A nostalgic memory play, Proposals recalls one idyllic afternoon in the summer of 1953, the last time the Hines clan gathers at its retreat in the Poconos....
     (1997)
  • The Dinner Party
    The Dinner Party (play)

    The Dinner Party is an original one-act play written by Neil Simon. It tells the story of six unknowing guests who are invited to a private dining room in a first-rate restaurant in Paris....
     (2000)
  • 45 Seconds from Broadway
    45 Seconds from Broadway

    45 Seconds from Broadway is a play by Neil Simon, his thirty-third.The title refers to the amount of time it takes to walk to Broadway from the play's setting, a coffee shop inspired by the one located off the lobby of midtown-New York City's tourist-class Edison Hotel, a long-time watering hole for struggling actors, aspiring writers,...
     (2001)
  • Rose's Dilemma
    Rose's Dilemma

    Rose's Dilemma is a 2003 Play by Neil Simon, produced off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club at City Center's Stage 1. It ran from November 20, 2003 until February 1, 2004....
     (2003)


Screenplays

  • 1963: Come Blow Your Horn
    Come Blow Your Horn (film)

    Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 in film comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and based on the play of the Come Blow Your Horn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
     - Director: Bud Yorkin
    Bud Yorkin

    Bud Yorkin is an United States film producer, director, writer and actor. He directed and produced the 1958 TV special An Evening With Fred Astaire, which won nine Emmy Awards....
    , screenplay by Norman Lear
    Norman Lear

    Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and Television producer who produced such popular sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude ....
     with Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
     and Lee J. Cobb
    Lee J. Cobb

    Lee J. Cobb was an United States actor....
  • 1966: After the Fox
    After the Fox

    Caccia alla volpe is a 1966 Italian comedy film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay, however, is in English language, by Neil Simon and De Sica's longtime collaborator, Cesare Zavattini....
     - Director: Vittorio DeSica with Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers

    'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
     and Victor Mature
    Victor Mature

    Victor Mature was an United States film actor....
  • 1967: Barefoot in the Park
    Barefoot in the Park (film)

    Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 in film United States comedy film.Based on Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, it focuses on newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone....
     - Director: Gene Saks
    Gene Saks

    Gene Saks is an United States Tony Award-winning stage director and film director.Born in New York City, Saks studied at Cornell University and trained at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research....
     with Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
     and Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
  • 1968: The Odd Couple
    The Odd Couple (film)

    The Odd Couple is a comedy film written by Neil Simon, based on his The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau....
     - Director: Gene Saks
    Gene Saks

    Gene Saks is an United States Tony Award-winning stage director and film director.Born in New York City, Saks studied at Cornell University and trained at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research....
     with Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon

    'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
     and Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau

    Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
  • 1969: Sweet Charity
    Sweet Charity (film)

    Sweet Charity is a 1969 in film musical movie directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and starring Shirley MacLaine....
     - Director: Bob Fosse
    Bob Fosse

    Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
     with Shirley MacLaine
    Shirley MacLaine

    Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
    , Chita Rivera
    Chita Rivera

    Chita Rivera is an American actress dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award ....
     and Sammy Davis Jr.
  • 1970: The Out-of-Towners
    The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)

    The Out-of-Towners is a 1970 in film comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis....
     - Director: Arthur Hiller
    Arthur Hiller

    Arthur Hiller, Order of Canada is a Canadian film director.Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an Honorary degree Doctor of Laws in 1995....
     with Jack Lemmon
  • 1971: Plaza Suite
    Plaza Suite

    Plaza Suite is a play by Neil Simon.It is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel....
     - Director: Arthur Hiller with Walter Matthau
  • 1972: The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
    The Last of the Red Hot Lovers

    The Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a play by Neil Simon.At the comedy's core is Barney Cashman, a middle-aged, married nebbish who wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late....
     - Director: Gene Saks with Alan Arkin
    Alan Arkin

    Alan Wolf Arkin is an American Academy Award-winning actor, Film director, and musician. He is best-known for starring in such films as: Catch-22 ; The In-Laws ; Edward Scissorhands; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; Glengarry Glen Ross ; and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award fo...
  • 1972: The Heartbreak Kid
    The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)

    The Heartbreak Kid is a 1972 in film romantic comedy film directed by Elaine May, written by Neil Simon, and starring Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, and Cybill Shepherd....
     - Director: Elaine May with Cybill Shepard and Charles Grodin
    Charles Grodin

    Charles Grodin is an United States actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host....
  • 1975: The Prisoner of Second Avenue
    The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an United States comedic Play written by famed playwright Neil Simon. The play was later made into a movie that was released in 1975....
     - Director: Melvin Frank
    Melvin Frank

    Melvin Frank was an United States screenwriter, film producer and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Norman Panama to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
     with Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
  • 1975: The Sunshine Boys
    The Sunshine Boys

    The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway theatre in 1972 and later adapted for film and television.It focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudeville team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-...
     - Director: Herbert Ross
    Herbert Ross

    Herbert Ross was an two-time Academy Award nominated United States film director, film producer, choreographer and actor.Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942....
     with Walter Matthau and George Burns
    George Burns

    George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
  • 1976: Murder by Death
    Murder by Death

    Murder by Death is a comedy movie written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore . The plot is a parody of the traditional country house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans from classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a form also parodied for the stage in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound....
     - Director: Robert Moore
    Robert Moore (director)

    Robert Moore was an United States theatre director, film director and television director....
     with Truman Capote
    Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was an United States writer whose short stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "non-fiction novel"....
    , Peter Falk
    Peter Falk

    Peter Falk is an United States actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo . He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, and won the Emmy Award on five occasions and the Golden Globe award once....
    , Alec Guinness
    Alec Guinness

    Sir Alec Guinness, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an Academy Award for Best Actor winning English actor....
    , David Niven
    David Niven

    James David Graham Niven was an English people Academy Award for Best Actor-winning actor probably best known for his roles as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton in The Pink Panther ....
     and Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers

    'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
  • 1977: The Goodbye Girl
    The Goodbye Girl

    The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
     - Director: Herbert Ross with Richard Dreyfuss
    Richard Dreyfuss

    'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
     and Marsha Mason
    Marsha Mason

    Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
  • 1978: The Cheap Detective
    The Cheap Detective

    The Cheap Detective is a 1978 in film Columbia Pictures spoof comedy film film, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death, ....
     - Director: Robert Moore with Peter Falk, Louise Fletcher
    Louise Fletcher

    Louise Fletcher is an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe-winning United States actress....
    , Stockard Channing
    Stockard Channing

    Stockard Channing is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated, three time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning stage, film and television actress....
    , Madeline Kahn
    Madeline Kahn

    Madeline Kahn was an American actor, known primarily for her comedic roles. Director Mel Brooks — who directed her in four films — said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived....
    , John Houseman
    John Houseman

    John Houseman was an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor-winning United States actor and film producer....
    , Nicol Williamson
    Nicol Williamson

    Nicol Williamson is a Scotland actor who was described by England playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando"....
     and Eileen Brennan
    Eileen Brennan

    Eileen Brennan is an United States actress of film, television, and theater....
  • 1978: California Suite
    California Suite (film)

    California Suite is a 1978 in film film based on the Play by Neil Simon....
     - Director: Herbert Ross with Jane Fonda, Alan Alda
    Alan Alda

    Alan Alda is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy award-winning United States actor, television director and screenwriter. He is well known for his role as "Hawkeye Pierce" in the television series M*A*S*H ....
    , Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith

    Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
    , Michael Caine
    Michael Caine

    Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
    , Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor
    Richard Pryor

    Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was an United States comedian, actor and writer.Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful, vulgar and profane language and racial epithets....
     and Bill Cosby
    Bill Cosby

    William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
  • 1980: Seems Like Old Times
    Seems Like Old Times (film)

    Seems Like Old Times is a 1980 in film comedy film film starring Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn and movie director by Jay Sandrich. Nick Gardenia , ex-husband of Glenda Parks , seems to have the worst luck of anyone in the world....
     - Director: Jay Sandrich
    Jay Sandrich

    Jay Henry Sandrich is an United States television director. He started out as an Assistant Director on I Love Lucy. Sandrich has directed episodes of Get Smart, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Soap , The Cosby Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Night Court, among many other television series....
     with Goldie Hawn
    Goldie Hawn

    Goldie Jean Hawn is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe- winning United Statesn actress, film director and film producer, best known for her 'dumb blonde' persona in a series of popular comedy....
     and Chevy Chase
    Chevy Chase

    Cornelius Crane ?Chevy? Chase is an United States Emmy Award comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase quickly became a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live, where his Weekend Update skit quickly became a staple of the show....
  • 1982: I Ought To Be In Pictures
    I Ought to Be in Pictures

    I Ought to Be in Pictures is a play by Neil Simon.The three-character comedy-drama focuses on Herb, a struggling, Writer's block screenwriter who abandoned his family sixteen years earlier....
     - Director: Herbert Ross with Walter Matthau
  • 1982: Sonny Boys - Director: Rolf von Sydow with Carl-Heinz Schroth
    Carl-Heinz Schroth

    Carl-Heinz Schroth was a Germany actor and film director. He appeared in 60 films between 1931 in film and 1989 in film. He also directed seven films between 1953 in film and 1963 in film....
     and Johannes Heesters
    Johannes Heesters

    Johannes Heesters is a the Netherlands-Austrian actor, singer and entertainer with an 87-year career, almost exclusively in the German language world....
  • 1983: Max Dugan Returns
    Max Dugan Returns

    Max Dugan Returns is a 1983 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama starring Jason Robards as the titular Max Dugan, Marsha Mason as his daughter Nora, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, and Matthew Broderick as grandson Michael ....
     - Director: Herbert Ross with Matthew Broderick
    Matthew Broderick

    Matthew Broderick is an United States award-winning film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Nick in Godzilla and David Lightman in WarGames....
    , Marsha Mason
    Marsha Mason

    Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
    , Jason Robards
    Jason Robards

    Jason Nelson Robards, Jr., was an Academy Award & Emmy Award-winning United States actor and a World War II United States Navy combat veteran. He became famous playing works of United States dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and would regularly play O'Neill's works throughout his career....
    , Kiefer Sutherland
    Kiefer Sutherland

    Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is a Canadian actor, well-known for his lead role of Jack Bauer on the FOX Broadcasting Company thriller drama series 24 ....
     and Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland

    'Donald McNicol Sutherland',? Order of Canada is a Canada character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. He is currently working in the American television series, Dirty Sexy Money. Sutherland's most notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and M*A*S*H and Kelly's...
  • 1984: The Lonely Guy
    The Lonely Guy

    The Lonely Guy is a 1984 in film Steve Martin romantic comedy film, written by Neil Simon and directed by Arthur Hiller. Martin portrays Larry Hubbard, a greeting card writer who goes through a period of terrible luck with women....
     - Director: Arthur Hiller with Steve Martin
    Steve Martin

    Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....
  • 1985: The Slugger's Wife - Director: Hal Ashby
    Hal Ashby

    Hal Ashby was an United States film director and Academy Awards-winning film editor....
     with Michael O'Keefe
    Michael O'Keefe

    Michael Raymond O'Keefe is an Academy Award-nominated United States film and television actor....
     and Rebecca De Mornay
    Rebecca De Mornay

    Rebecca De Mornay is an United States film and television Actors/Female. Her breakout film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business....
  • 1986: Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Brighton Beach Memoirs

    Brighton Beach Memoirs is a play by Neil Simon. It was made into a movie that was released in 1986.Set in Brooklyn, New York's Brighton Beach in 1937, the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy is the first play in what is known as Simon's "Eugene Trilogy." The small cast consists of Eugene, his brother Stanley and their parents Kat...
     - Director: Gene Saks with Jonathan Silverman
    Jonathan Silverman

    Jonathan E. Silverman is an United States actor....
     and David Margulies
    David Margulies

    David Joseph Margulies is an United States actor.Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Runya , a nurse and museum worker, and Harry David Margulies, a lawyer....
  • 1988: Biloxi Blues
    Biloxi Blues

    Biloxi Blues is a 1988 in film United States comedy film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his semi-autobiography Biloxi Blues ....
     - Director: Mike Nichols
    Mike Nichols

    Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....
     with Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken
    Christopher Walken

    'Christopher Walken' is an Academy Award winning United States actor of theater and film, on which he has spent more than 50 years. A prolific actor, he has appeared in over 100 movie and television roles, notably including A View to a Kill, At Close Range, The Deer Hunter, King of New York, Batman Returns and Pulp Fictio...
  • 1991: The Marrying Man
    The Marrying Man

    The Marrying Man is a 1991 film starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger....
     - Director: Jerry Rees
    Jerry Rees

    Jerry Rees is an animator and director best known for the 1987 Emmy-nominated animated film The Brave Little Toaster . He supervised and helped create many of the visual effects for the cult classic Tron , and is also a sculptor and fine artist....
     with Kim Basinger
    Kim Basinger

    'Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger' is an United States film actor and former fashion model.She won multiple best supporting actress awards for her role in the 1997 film L.A....
     and Alec Baldwin
    Alec Baldwin

    Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an United States film and television actor. Working as Alec Baldwin, he has appeared in prominent films such as Beetlejuice, as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October , in the Martin Scorsese films The Aviator and The Departed....
  • 1993: Lost in Yonkers
    Lost in Yonkers

    Lost in Yonkers is a 1991 play by Neil Simon. After eleven Preview , the Broadway theatre production, directed by Gene Saks, opened on February 21 1991 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 780 performances....
     - Director: Martha Coolidge
    Martha Coolidge

    Martha Coolidge is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America....
     with Richard Dreyfuss
  • 1995: The Sunshine Boys
    The Sunshine Boys

    The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway theatre in 1972 and later adapted for film and television.It focuses on aging Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time vaudeville team known as "Lewis and Clark" who, over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to hate each other but never spoke to each other off-...
     - Director: John Erman
    John Erman

    'John Erman' is a two-time Emmy Award-winning United States television director and film director and Film producer.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Erman spent the early years of his career directing episodes of such primetime series as Peyton Place , The Fugitive , The Outer Limits, Stoney Burke, Ben Casey, My Favorite Mart...
     with Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
     and Peter Falk
  • 1998: The Odd Couple II
    The Odd Couple II

    The Odd Couple II is the 1998 in film sequel to 1968's The Odd Couple . It reunites Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their last film together....
     - Director: Howard Deutch
    Howard Deutch

    Howard Deutch is an American Film director. His most recent theatrical release was My Best Friend's Girl , starring Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, and Alec Baldwin....
     with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
  • 2001: Sonny Boys - Director: Jörg Hube with Werner Schneyder and Dieter Hildebrandt
    Dieter Hildebrandt

    Dieter Hildebrandt is a Germany cabaret artist.Born in Boleslawiec, Province of Lower Silesia, Hildebrandt attended school until he became an assistant for the German Air Force in World War II....
  • 2004: The Goodbye Girl
    The Goodbye Girl

    The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
     with Patricia Heaton
    Patricia Heaton

    Patricia Helen Heaton is a two-time Emmy Award-winning United States actress best known for playing lead character and Ray Barone's wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond....
     and Jeff Daniels
    Jeff Daniels

    Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an United States actor, musician and playwright....
     for Turner Network Television
    Turner Network Television

    TNT is an United States Cable television network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner....


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