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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › Woody-AllenWoody Allen | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica

    May 14, 2024 · Woody Allen (born November 30, 1935, Bronx, New York, U.S.) is an American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, playwright, and author who is best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd but who also made weighty dramas, often with dark themes and bleak landscapes ...

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    Apr 2, 2014 · By Biography.com Editors Updated: Sep 9, 2022. Getty Images. (1935-) Who Is Woody Allen? Born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 1, 1935, Woody Allen is an American film director,...

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  4. www.thetimes.co.uk › article › quiz-how-well-do-youQuiz: how well do you know your Woody Allen?

    1 Woody Allen famously plays with a New Orleans jazz band at Manhattan’s Carlyle Hotel. What instrument does he play? 2 What do the three things in picture two, above (click on the arrow...

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  6. www.theparisreview.org › interviews › 1550Paris Review - The Art of Humor No. 1

    Woody Allen. , The Art of Humor No. 1. Interviewed by Michiko Kakutani. Issue 136, Fall 1995. Woody Allen, ca. 1969. Take the Money and Run. As New Yorkers know, Woody Allen is one of its more ubiquitous citizens—at courtside in Madison Square Garden watching the Knicks, at Michael’s Pub on Monday evenings playing the clarinet, on occasion ...

  7. www.pastemagazine.com › movies › woody-allenEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen (But ...

    Jun 26, 2012 · Some of the best performances of any Allen film—Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest won Oscars, and strong cases could have been made for Mia Farrow and Barbara Hershey as well.

  8. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000095Woody Allen - Biography - IMDb

    Woody Allen. Writer: Manhattan. Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.

  9. www.thecrimson.com › article › 1992/4/16Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen: The ...

    Apr 16, 1992 · Allen's selfmade image has pervaded the movie characters he portrays, causing an inseparable image of Woody the character and the man to persist to this day.