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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil Simon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Pitch
(Self)
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
(Self)
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
(Himself)
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
Caesar's Writers
(Self)
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
(Himself)
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
(Himself)
Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
(Himself)
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
(Self)
Murder By Death - A Conversation with Neil Simon
(Himself)
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
(Self)
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
(Self)
Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
(Self)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
(Self)
Inside the Actors Studio
(Self)
The Merv Griffin Show
(Self)
CBS News Sunday Morning
(Self)
The Kennedy Center Honors
(Self)
Frasier
(Andy (voice))
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
(Self - Guest)
The Dick Cavett Show
(Self - Guest)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Murder by Death
(Writer)
The Odd Couple II
(Screenplay)
The Good Doctor
(Writer)
The Heartbreak Kid
(Screenplay)
Chapter Two
(Screenplay)
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
(Screenplay)
The Cheap Detective
(Writer)
Plaza Suite
(Theatre Play)
Broadway Bound
(Theatre Play)
The Sunshine Boys
(Writer)
The Goodbye Girl
(Writer)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
(Theatre Play)
Chapter Two
(Theatre Play)
Pieds nus dans le parc
(Writer)
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
(Writer)
The Sunshine Boys
(Writer)
Broadway Bound
(Writer)
Goodbye Shirazi Girl
(Theatre Play)
Ein seltsames Paar
(Theatre Play)
The Heartbreak Kid
(Original Film Writer)
Andy & Norman
(Theatre Play)
The Trouble With People
(Writer)
The Trouble With People
(Executive Producer)
Lost in Yonkers
(Writer)
Jake's Women
(Writer)
I Ought to Be in Pictures
(Theatre Play)
I Ought to Be in Pictures
(Screenplay)
Barefoot in the Park
(Theatre Play)
Barefoot in the Park
(Screenplay)
The Goodbye Girl
(Writer)
California Suite
(Screenplay)
Only When I Laugh
(Screenplay)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
(Screenplay)
The Out-of-Towners
(Original Story)
Barefoot In the Park
(Writer)
Come Blow Your Horn
(Theatre Play)
Star Spangled Girl
(Theatre Play)
The Marrying Man
(Writer)
The Goodbye Girl
(Executive Producer)
The Slugger's Wife
(Writer)
Biloxi Blues
(Screenplay)
Biloxi Blues
(Theatre Play)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
(Theatre Play)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
(Screenplay)
The Out-of-Towners
(Screenplay)
Seems Like Old Times
(Writer)
Max Dugan Returns
(Writer)
Max Dugan Returns
(Producer)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
(Novel)
I Ought to Be in Pictures
(Producer)
Sweet Charity
(Musical)
The Sunshine Boys
(Original Story)
Les Stars : Daniel Prévost & Jacques Balutin
(Writer)
Drôle de couple
(Writer)
After the Fox
(Theatre Play)
After the Fox
(Screenplay)
Barefoot in the Park
(Writer)
Rumors
(Writer)
The Odd Couple II
(Producer)
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
(Author)
Plaza Suite
(Writer)
Plaza Suite
(Writer)
The Odd Couple
(Theatre Play)
The Odd Couple
(Screenplay)
Babes in Toyland
(Adaptation)
Babes in Toyland
(Adaptation)
The Desert Song
(Adaptation)
Plaza Suite
(Writer)
Sonny Boys
(Writer)
Sonny Boys
(Theatre Play)
Only When I Laugh
(Producer)
Sweet Charity
(Writer)
Only When I Laugh
(Theatre Play)
The Adventures of Marco Polo
(Writer)
Dearest Enemy
(Adaptation)
Panier de crabes
(Theatre Play)
They're Playing Our Song
(Author)
The Lonely Guy
(Adaptation)
My brother and friend I will kill you
(Story)
The Great Waltz
(Adaptation)
A Connecticut Yankee
(Adaptation)
Хочу сниматься в кино
(Writer)
Omaka par
(Theatre Play)
Omaka par
(Theatre Play)
Οι ηλίθιοι
(Writer)
Holiday
(Teleplay)
Paris in the Springtime
(Teleplay)
Heidi
(Adaptation)
Naughty Marietta
(Teleplay)
London Suite
(Writer)
The Comics
(Theatre Play)
The Comics
(Author)
Rumeurs
(Writer)
Love, American Style
(Original Story)
Felix und Oskar
(Characters)
Alta comedia
(Theatre Play)
The New Odd Couple
(Theatre Play)
The Oddball Couple
(Theatre Play)
The Odd Couple
(Creator)