Paddy Chayefsky
Writing
1923-01-29 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography(8)
movieThe Hospital
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1971 · 6.6
tvFilm '72
as Self · 1971 · 4.7
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 1968 · 6.8
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1962 · 7.5
tvThe David Susskind Show
as Self · 1959 · 7.0
movieMarty
as Leo (uncredited) · 1955 · 7.5
tvThe Oscars
as Self · 1953 · 7.0
movieA Double Life
as Photographer (uncredited) · 1947 · 6.4