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Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Birthday
January 29, 1923
Died
August 1, 1981
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky
- Sidney Aaron Chayefsky
- Sidney Aaron
Paddy Chayefsky
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
Credits
The Hospital
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1971
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Film '72
as Self
1971
4.7
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The David Susskind Show
as Self
1959
5.0
Marty
as Leo (uncredited)
1955
7.4
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
A Double Life
as Photographer (uncredited)
1947
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