Cast & creator
Neil Simon
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Frasier, The Merv Griffin Show
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 1975, 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. His first produced play was Come Blow Your Horn (1961). It took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successes, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965). He won a Tony Award for the latter. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway". From the 1960s to the 1980s he wrote for stage and screen; some of his screenplays were based on his own works for the stage. His style ranged from farce to romantic comedy to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three awards. In 1966, he had four successful productions running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 he became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil Simon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Marvin Neil Simon, Doc Simon
109
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1954–2019 · acting roles
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Filmography (124)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Frasier
Andy (voice)
1993
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
1979
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
The South Bank Show
1978
Love, American Style
Original Story
1969
The Odd Couple
Creator
1970
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Alta comedia
Theatre Play
1970
The Heartbreak Kid
Original Film Writer
2007
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996
Murder by Death
Writer
1976
The Oddball Couple
Theatre Play
1975
The New Odd Couple
Theatre Play
1982
The Out-of-Towners
Original Story
1999
Barefoot in the Park
Theatre Play
1967Barefoot in the Park
Screenplay
1967
London Suite
Writer
1996
The Odd Couple
Theatre Play
1968The Odd Couple
Screenplay
1968
The Goodbye Girl
Writer
1977
The Lonely Guy
Adaptation
1984
California Suite
Screenplay
1978
The Odd Couple II
Screenplay
1998The Odd Couple II
Producer
1998
The Out-of-Towners
Writer
1970
The Cheap Detective
Writer
1978
Biloxi Blues
Screenplay
1988Biloxi Blues
Theatre Play
1988
The Marrying Man
Writer
1991
Seems Like Old Times
Writer
1980
Sweet Charity
Musical
1969
The Slugger's Wife
Writer
1985
Djemtë Gazmorë
Writer
2014
The Heartbreak Kid
Screenplay
1972
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Theatre Play
1975The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Screenplay
1975
The Sunshine Boys
Screenplay
1975
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Max Dugan Returns
Writer
1983Max Dugan Returns
Producer
1983
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Self
2002
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Screenplay
1972
After the Fox
Theatre Play
1966After the Fox
Screenplay
1966Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self
1976
Come Blow Your Horn
Theatre Play
1963
Only When I Laugh
Screenplay
1981Only When I Laugh
Producer
1981Only When I Laugh
Theatre Play
1981
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Theatre Play
1982I Ought to Be in Pictures
Screenplay
1982I Ought to Be in Pictures
Producer
1982
The Goodbye Girl
Writer
2004The Goodbye Girl
Executive Producer
2004
Barefoot In the Park
Writer
1982
The Sunshine Boys
Writer
1996
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Theatre Play
1986Brighton Beach Memoirs
Screenplay
1986Οι ηλίθιοι
Writer
2001
Plaza Suite
Theatre Play
1971Plaza Suite
Writer
1971
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Self
1996
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Self
2012
Sweet Charity
Writer
2006
Omaka par
Theatre Play
1996
Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
Himself
1990
Plaza Suite
Writer
1987
Chapter Two
Screenplay
1979Chapter Two
Theatre Play
1979Felix und Oskar
Characters
1980
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Theatre Play
2001Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Screenplay
2001The Trouble With People
Writer
1972The Trouble With People
Executive Producer
1972
Les Stars : Daniel Prévost & Jacques Balutin
Writer
2015
Rumeurs
Writer
1991
Jake's Women
Writer
1996
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
Himself
2003The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
Himself
2000
Lost in Yonkers
Writer
1993
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
Self
2000
Star Spangled Girl
Theatre Play
1971
They're Playing Our Song
Author
1979
Pieds nus dans le parc
Writer
1982
Drôle de couple
Writer
1987Sonny Boys
Theatre Play
1982
Naughty Marietta
Teleplay
1955
Plaza Suite
Writer
1982
The Good Doctor
Writer
1978
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Self
1997
Babes in Toyland
Adaptation
1954
Babes in Toyland
Adaptation
1955The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
Himself
2000
Pitch
Self
1997
Paris in the Springtime
Teleplay
1956
Caesar's Writers
Self
1996
Sonny Boys
Writer
1995
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Writer
1956
Goodbye Shirazi Girl
Theatre Play
2019The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
A Connecticut Yankee
Adaptation
1955Хочу сниматься в кино
Writer
2002
California Suite
Author
2007
The Great Waltz
Adaptation
1955
The Comics
Theatre Play
2002The Comics
Author
2002
The Desert Song
Adaptation
1955Murder By Death - A Conversation with Neil Simon
Himself
1999
Broadway Bound
Theatre Play
1992Broadway Bound
Writer
1992
Heidi
Adaptation
1955
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Novel
1980
Dearest Enemy
Adaptation
1955Ein seltsames Paar
Theatre Play
2004
Panier de crabes
Theatre Play
1999
Andy & Norman
Theatre Play
1989
Omaka par
Theatre Play
1988Barefoot in the Park
Writer
2010
Rumors
Writer
2013
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Author
1989
My brother and friend I will kill you
Story
1986
Holiday
Teleplay
1956