Chayefsky, Paddy (1923-1981)
Distinguished playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Paddy (born Sidney) Chayefsky was a major force in the flowering of post-World War II television drama, sympathetica...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Jerome Ross
Mr. Chayefsky is the first television dramatist whose work has been given the permanence of the printed book, and deservedly so…. [The six plays collected in �...
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Critical Essay by Robert F. Moss
Chayefsky is like a small, affable tornado…. His characters are famous for their loquacity and it's easy to see where they get it.
Chayefsky began ea...
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Critical Essay by Brooks Atkinson
Mr. Chayefsky has written ["Middle of the Night"] in a minor key, deliberately holding down the emotion and laying emphasis on the homeliness of the ma...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Shub
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 pop...
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Critical Essay by Richard Watts, Jr.
The first thing to be said of "Gideon" is that it has distinction and a haunting fascination…. Paddy Chayefsky's dramatization of the ...
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Critical Essay by Allan Lewis
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 ro...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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....
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George Crile, a writer and CBS News producer who was among the first journalists to chronicle the threat of Al Qaeda, and who famously took on the military for its dishonesty during the Vietnam War...
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George Crile, a writer and CBS News producer who was among the first journalists to chronicle the threat of Al Qaeda, and who famously took on the military for its dishonesty during the Vietnam War...
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Chayefsky, Paddy (1923-1981)
Sidney Chayefsky
Critical Essay by Jerome Ross
Director Delbert Mann dies in LA
