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Paddy Chayefsky
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Screenwriter, Play Author, Short Story Author Born: January 29, 1923 in Bronx, New York City, NY Death: August 1, 1981 in New York City, NY Biography:Playwright/scenarist "Paddy Chayefsky" originally harbored dreams of becoming a comedian, but turned to writing while convalescing from a war wound. His entry into movies was by way of a bit part in the New York-based "A Double Life" (1947). He began securing writing work in the world of live television in the early 1950s, contributing to virtually every major Golden Age anthology. Though he was pigeonholed early on as a specialist in "kitchen sink" drama, Chayefsky preferred to think of himself as a satirist: even his best-known TV drama, "Marty", was intended as a parody of the dreary lives and pointless small talk of Bronx tenement dwellers. "Marty" did so well as a 1953 TV drama that it was expanded by Chayefsky into a 1955 film, which won that year's Best Picture Oscar. The author continued in a relatively realistic vein until his 1959 play "Gideon", an irreverent Biblical retelling wherein the... Full Biography
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