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Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon 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 19…
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Born 4 July 1927 · Died 26 August 2018 · Q315808
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2026· 3 entries
“often self-deprecating and [who] usually see life from the grimmest point of view”
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“To this day I never really knew what the reason for all the fights and battles were about between the two of them ... She”
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2018· 1 entry
Died 2018-08-26.
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2006).
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Simon received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
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2004· 1 entry
Simon received a kidney transplant from his long-time friend and publicist Bill Evans
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Helmerich Award (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1995).
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1991· 4 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Play for Lost in Yonkers (1991).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Lost in Yonkers (1991).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (1991).
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Won the Pulitzer Prize along with the Tony Award for Lost in Yonkers (1991)
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1983· 3 entries
Simon became the only living playwright to have a New York City theatre named after him
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Began writing the first of three autobiographical plays, Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), which would be followed by Biloxi Blues (1985) and Broadway Bound (1986)
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Simon was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for The Goodbye Girl (1977).
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1975· 1 entry
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006
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1973· 1 entry
Simon became a widower in 1973 when Baim died of bone cancer at age 41.
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1969· 1 entry
Simon was reputedly earning $45,000 a week from his shows (excluding sale of rights), making him the most financially successful Broadway writer ever
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1966· 1 entry
Had four successful productions running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983, he became the first living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Author for The Odd Couple (1965).
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Won the Tony Award for Best Playwright (The Odd Couple), and in 1975, a special Tony Award for his overall contribution to American theater
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1961· 1 entry
Simon's first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn, ran for 678 performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
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1951· 1 entry
1952, 1953, and 1954, and won in 1952 and 1953
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1950· 1 entry
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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1927· 2 entries
In The Bronx, New York City, to Jewish parents
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Born 1927-07-04.
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