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Port Chester, New York, U.S. Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Screenwriter, playwright. Murray Joseph Schisgal (November 25, 1926 – October 1, 2020) was an American playwright and screenwriter. [1]
- October 1, 2020 (aged 93), Port Chester, New York, U.S.
Oct 4, 2020 · Murray Schisgal, a playwright and screenwriter who brought his off-kilter brand of black comedy to Broadway with the screwball hit “Luv,” and who later forged a partnership with actor Dustin ...
Oct 2, 2020 · Associated Press. Murray Schisgal, a playwright and screenwriter who took his offbeat brand of humor to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning comedy “Luv” and to Hollywood in the hit farce ...
- Will Dudding
Oct 5, 2020 · Murray Schisgal, the comedy writer who received two Tony nominations for his work on the 1960s Broadway hit 'Luv' and an Oscar nomination for contribution to the screenplay for 'Tootsie,' has died.
Oct 3, 2020 · The American Jewish playwright Murray Schisgal, who has died at age 93, baffled generations of actors and theatregoers with his bittersweet plays redolent with Yiddishkeit. Author of such ...
Oct 5, 2020 · Murray Schisgal, whose writing brought a 1964 Tony Award nomination for the Broadway play Luv and a 1982 Oscar nomination for the hit Dustin Hoffman comedy Tootsie, died Oct. 1 at a nursing home ...
Schisgal wrote over fifty plays for the stage and also wrote for television and film. Dustin Hoffman played the born loser in JIMMY SHINE, Schisgal’s 1968–69 Broadway hit with songs written for the play by John Sebastian. The artistic relationship between Hoffman and Schisgal continued successfully into the 1980s.
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