Paddy Chayefsky
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- January 29, 1923, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- August 1, 1981
- Movies
- 17
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1971 | The Hospital | Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Marty | Leo (uncredited) |
| 1947 | A Double Life | Photographer (uncredited) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1994 | The Mother | Writer |
| 1981 | Ein Zug nach Manhattan | Writer |
| 1980 | Altered States | Screenplay |
| 1976 | Network | Writer |
| 1971 | The Hospital | Writer, Producer |
| 1964 | The Americanization of Emily | Screenplay |
| 1959 | Middle of the Night | Screenplay |
| 1958 | The Goddess | Screenplay |
| 1957 | The Bachelor Party | Screenplay |
| 1955 | Marty | Screenplay |
| 1954 | Middle of the Night | Writer |
| 1953 | The Bachelor Party | Writer |
| 1953 | Marty | Writer |
| 1945 | The True Glory | Writer |
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