Paddy Chayefsky

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1923-01-29

Deathday 1981-08-01 (58 years old)

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

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

Writer

1994
The Mother

as Writer

1980
Altered States

as Screenplay

1980
1976
Network

as Screenplay

1971
The Hospital

as Writer

1971
Gideon

as Theatre Play

1969
Paint Your Wagon

as Adaptation

1959
Middle of the Night

as Screenplay

1959
Middle of the Night

as Theatre Play

1958
The Goddess

as Screenplay

1957
The Bachelor Party

as Screenplay

1957
1956
The Catered Affair

as Teleplay

1955
Marty

as Screenplay

1954
1953
Marty

as Writer

1953
1945
The True Glory

as Writer

Actor

2024
Faye

as Self - Screenwriter, Network (archive footage)

1971
The Hospital

as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1955
Marty

as Leo (uncredited)

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1947
A Double Life

as Photographer (uncredited)

Producer

1971
The Hospital

as Producer

1957
The Bachelor Party

as Associate Producer

1955
Marty

as Associate Producer

Crew

1973
The Way We Were

as Additional Writing