Actor

Paddy Chayefsky

Classic Era1923–1981DramaComedyThrillerMystery

Chronicler of the Human Condition

Also wrote 19 screenplays ↗

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Filmography

1971The HospitalOpening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)6.6 1955MartyLeo (uncredited)7.5 1947A Double LifePhotographer (uncredited)6.4

About

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.

As Screenwriter

Full writer page ↗

1958The Goddess 1969Paint Your Wagon 1980Altered States 1971The Hospital 1964The Americanization of Emily 1955Marty

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