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Apr 23, 2019 · Oscar-winning writer Paddy Chayefsky was a Broadway staple and close friend of Bob Fosse. Here's a bit more about the man who inspired Norbert Leo Butz's character on Fosse/Verdon.
Aug 9, 1981 · Paddy Chayefsky died on Saturday, Aug. 1, in the final act of a life as complex and colorful as anything he wrote, and in the middle of his return to the theater he viewed with love and anguish.
Aug 2, 1981 · The playwright Paddy Chayefsky, a winner of three Academy Awards, died of cancer yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 58 years old. Between his early great ...
May 19, 2011 · The screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) won an Academy Award for his jeremiad “Network” (1976), starring Faye Dunaway. United Artists. By Dave Itzkoff. May 19, 2011. LAMENTING the lack of...
Sidney Aaron " Paddy " Chayefsky / ˌtʃaɪˈ ( j) ɛfski / (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Paddy Chayefsky. Circa 1972.
Chayefsky gained the reputation as the pack leader of kitchen sink realism on television. Between 1949 and 1955, he delivered a dozen teleplays to Coe, including The Bachelor Party and The Catered Affair. Following the Philco years, Chayefsky's The Great American Hoax was seen May 15, 1957 during the second season of The 20th Century Fox Hour.
Feb 28, 2018 · In the future, he will look at writers as brilliant and diverse as David Simon, Dennis Potter, Sharon Horgan and Carla Lane. But in the first part of the series, he examines the career of the man who was arguably the very first great writer for television, Paddy Chayefsky.
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