With the birth of television in the late 1940s came a new medium through which writers could reach varied audiences. Paddy Chayefsky recognized the scope of this medium and produced some remarkable television plays, including Marty (1953) and The...

Paddy Chayefsky is one of a handful of American screenwriters who first achieved fame during the golden age of television, producing some of his best work for the live dramatic anthology programs. At the time Chayefsky was honing his craft on the...

Distinguished playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Paddy (born Sidney) Chayefsky was a major force in the flowering of post-World War II television drama, sympathetically chronicling the lives and problems of ordinary people. His most famous piece...

Sidney Aaron Chayefski (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and...

Robert Sklar Forward 07-29-1994 Split Screenwriter's Divided Allegiance: Reviewing Paddy Chayefsky's. Angry Satire One Sunday morning in basic training during World War II, so the story goes, a raw Jewish recruit tried to get out of kitchen duty by claiming he was...

Shaun Considine. Random, $25 (304p) ISBN 0-679-40892-4 Considine (Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud) has written an engrossing and lively biography of the late screenwriter, the only one to win three Oscars-for Marry, Hospital and Network. Chayefsky (1923-1981) also wrote the screenplays...

Delbert Mann, who transformed Paddy Chayefsky's classic teleplays "Marty" and "The Bachelor Party" into big-screen triumphs and helped bring TV techniques to the film world, died Sunday. He was 87.Mann died of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Fred Mann said...

Jeff Garlin isn't long into his comedy set when he announces to the audience: "I'm never nervous."Calmness in the face of many things _ an improvising Larry David, repeated production halts for his new film "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With" _ has served...

Paddy Chayefsky, it has been said many times, is the Clifford Odets of the 1950's, and the differences between the two playwrights largely reflect a shift in popular attitudes since the 30's. Chayefsky's theatrical world is the same Bronx evoked by Odets twenty-five years ago, and his fundamental note, too, is the pathos of the lower middle classes. Like Odets, Chayefsky writes mostly about immigrants and their children, draws heavily on Jewish folk humor, and is more inventive at comed...

The first thing to be said of "Gideon" is that it has distinction and a haunting fascination…. Paddy Chayefsky's dramatization of the Old Testament story … combines bold imagination, intensity of searching contemplation of the relationship between God and man, and a delightful vein of humor. Its first act is completely successful. But I can't help feeling that, in the second half, Mr. Chayefsky courageously plunges in beyond his depth…. Mr. Chayefsky's...

The Passion of Joseph D (1964) well illustrates the problems of the television writer now dedicated to the theatre. The play deals with the Russian Revolution and the role played by Stalin…. Influenced by the expressionists, and Bertolt Brecht in particular, Chayefsky attempted a political burlesque comparable to those frequently seen in German nightclubs. The play is in the form of historical episodes, often unrelated; actors address the audience directly, and songs and comedy routines interrupt the...