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Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received three Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. His first produced play was Come Blow Your Horn (1961). It took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successes, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965). He won a Tony Award for the latter. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway". From the 1960s to the 1980s he wrote for stage and screen; some of his screenplays were based on his own works for the stage. His style ranged from farce to romantic comedy to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three awards. In 1966, he had four successful productions running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 he became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil Simon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1927-07-04
- event Death Date 2018-08-26
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 2.5
- info Birth Place The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Neil Simon
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Pitch
1997-09-04
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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
2000-06-20
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Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
2003-01-01
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The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977-01-01
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Caesar's Writers
1996-08-19
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
2000-06-20
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
2000-06-20
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Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
1990-02-23
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Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996-11-25
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Murder By Death - A Conversation with Neil Simon
1999-01-01
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In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012-11-13
6.5
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
1997-01-01
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Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
1998-08-12
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Inside the Actors Studio
1994-08-14
5.3
The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01
6.2
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979-01-28
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The Kennedy Center Honors
1978-12-28
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Frasier
1993-09-16
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The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996-06-10
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The Dick Cavett Show
1968-06-06
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Murder by Death
1976-06-23
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The Odd Couple II
1998-04-09
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The Good Doctor
1978-11-08
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The Heartbreak Kid
1972-12-17
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Chapter Two
1979-12-14
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1972-08-16
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The Cheap Detective
1978-06-23
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Plaza Suite
1971-05-12
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Broadway Bound
1992-03-22
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The Sunshine Boys
1975-11-06
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The Goodbye Girl
2004-01-16
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975-03-14
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Chapter Two
1979-12-14
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Pieds nus dans le parc
1982-01-15
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor
2001-05-26
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The Sunshine Boys
1996-08-08
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Broadway Bound
1992-03-22
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Goodbye Shirazi Girl
2019-12-04
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Ein seltsames Paar
2004-01-05
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The Heartbreak Kid
2007-10-05
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Andy & Norman
1989-01-07
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The Trouble With People
1972-11-12
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The Trouble With People
1972-11-12
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Lost in Yonkers
1993-05-14
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Jake's Women
1996-01-02
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I Ought to Be in Pictures
1982-03-26
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I Ought to Be in Pictures
1982-03-26
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Barefoot in the Park
1967-05-25
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Barefoot in the Park
1967-05-25
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The Goodbye Girl
1977-11-27
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California Suite
1978-12-15
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Only When I Laugh
1981-09-25
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975-03-14
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The Out-of-Towners
1999-04-02
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Barefoot In the Park
1982-03-20
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Come Blow Your Horn
1963-06-05
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Star Spangled Girl
1971-12-22
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The Marrying Man
1991-04-05
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The Goodbye Girl
2004-01-16
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The Slugger's Wife
1985-03-29
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Biloxi Blues
1988-03-25
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Biloxi Blues
1988-03-25
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986-12-26
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986-12-26
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The Out-of-Towners
1970-05-28
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Seems Like Old Times
1980-12-19
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Max Dugan Returns
1983-03-25
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Max Dugan Returns
1983-03-25
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1980-01-21
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I Ought to Be in Pictures
1982-03-26
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The Lonely Guy
1984-01-27
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Sweet Charity
1969-02-25
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The Sunshine Boys
1975-11-06
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Les Stars : Daniel Prévost & Jacques Balutin
2015-11-25
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Drôle de couple
1987-09-25
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After the Fox
1966-09-08
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After the Fox
1966-09-08
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Barefoot in the Park
2010-03-06
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Rumors
2013-09-27
6.6
The Odd Couple II
1998-04-09
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1989-02-08
6.6
Plaza Suite
1982-05-23
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Plaza Suite
1987-12-03
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The Odd Couple
1968-05-16
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The Odd Couple
1968-05-16
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Babes in Toyland
1955-12-24
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Babes in Toyland
1954-12-18
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The Desert Song
1955-05-07
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Plaza Suite
1971-05-12
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Sonny Boys
1995-03-19
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Sonny Boys
1982-12-12
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Only When I Laugh
1981-09-25
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London Suite
1996-09-15
6.6
Sweet Charity Brasil
2006-09-16
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Only When I Laugh
1981-09-25
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
1956-04-14
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Dearest Enemy
1955-11-26
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Love, American Style
1969-09-29
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Felix und Oskar
1980-01-04
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Alta comedia
1970-04-19
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The New Odd Couple
1982-10-29