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Neil Simon
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American playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)
OverviewAI-generated
Neil Simon (1927–2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film producer, and lyricist. Born in New York City, he was educated at DeWitt Clinton High School, the University of Denver, and New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His notable works include *Brighton Beach Memoirs*, *Biloxi Blues*, *Lost in Yonkers*, and *The Goodbye Girl*. Simon was a resident of The Bronx and spoke English.
He received numerous accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Author, the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Simon was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Writing, Original Screenplay and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, as well as Primetime Emmy Awards. He was married to Marsha Mason and Elaine Joyce. Simon died in Manhattan, New York City, of natural causes due to HIV.
Synthesized by Vinony from 41 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 July 1927
- Died
- 26 August 2018
- Works
- 50
Top works
- All Over / The Boys in the Band / Ceremonies in Dark Old Men / The Great White Hope / The House of Blue Leaves / Indians / Lemon Sky / Little Murders / Morning / Noon / Night / Play It Again, Sam / The Price / The Prisoner of Second Avenue / Tom Paine / 1776 / Scuba Duba / Sticks and Bones / Subject to Fits
- Pearson Literature--California--Reading and Language
- Brighton Beach memoirs
- What they did for love
- I ought to be in pictures
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- In the Beginning: The Caesar Years — Self2012
- Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar — Himself2003
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories — Self2002
- The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV — Self2000
- The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy — Himself2000
- The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room — Himself2000
- Murder By Death - A Conversation with Neil Simon — Himself1999
- Private Screenings: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau — Self1998
- Pitch — Self1997
- Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough — Self1997
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1927
- Active to
- 2018
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 294
- Total plays
- 1,171
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Neil+Simon">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 88,431x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,641x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,143x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,037x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage…Like two out of every ten couples.”
- “And so she lived ... hopefully ... ever after.”
- “Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.”
- “You're welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.”
- “If I had to make one comparison, I'd say that when it's five below in New York, it's 78 in Los Angeles, and when it's 110 in New York, it's 78 in Los Angeles; but there are 2,000,000 interesting people in New York–and only 78 in Los Angeles. There may be a hell of a lot more, but it's hard to find them.”
- “People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Marvin Neil Simon , ( 1927-07-04 ) July 4, 1927, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- August 26, 2018 (2018-08-26) (aged 91), New York City, U.S.
- Occupation
- Playwright screenwriter author
- Education
- New York University University of Denver
- Period
- 1948–2010
- Genre
- Comedy drama farce autobiography
- Notable works
- Brighton Beach Memoirs Biloxi Blues Come Blow Your Horn The Odd Couple Lost in Yonkers The Goodbye Girl
- Notable awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1991)
- Relatives
- Danny Simon (brother) Michael H. Simon (nephew)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Neil
- Family name
- Simon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Educated at
- University of Denver
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Notable work
- The Goodbye Girl
- Image
- Neil Simon NYWTS.jpg
- Work location
- United States
- Residence
- The Bronx
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 1927-07-04
- Commons category
- Neil Simon
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Musical
- date of death
- 2018-08-26
- cause of death
- HIV
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Marvin Neil Simon
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films with screenplays by Neil Simon
- end of work period
- 2010-00-00
- birth name
- Marvin Neil Simon
- writing language
- English language
Sources (14)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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 Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neil Simon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.