Neil Simon
Sign in to saveAmerican playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)
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
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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
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 294
- Total plays
- 1,171
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,307x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,743x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,601x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 31,497x
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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
Key dates
- Born
- 4 July 1927
- Died
- 26 August 2018
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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
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Denver
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
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.
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