Biography
Buck Henry was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Henry's contributions to film included his work as a co-writer for Mike Nichols's The Graduate (1967) for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He appeared in acting roles in Nichols's Catch-22 (1970)—also co-written with Nichols—Herbert Ross's and The Owl and the Pussycat (1970). He was a co-writer on Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972). In 1978, he co-directed Heaven Can Wait (1978) with Warren Beatty, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. He later appeared in Albert Brooks's Defending Your Life (1991), and the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Short Cuts (1993).
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series · 1967
- Emmy Award
- Writers Guild of America Award
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1979 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1968 · nominated
Filmography49 titles
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Tales from the Crypt
Get Smart
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
The Graduate
30 Rock
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
What's Up, Doc?
Franklin & Bash
Hot in Cleveland
The Player
Serendipity
Casting By
Will & Grace
Defending Your Life
Gloria
Saturday Night Live
Dilbert
The Dick Cavett Show
Grumpy Old Men
Heaven Can Wait
Catch-22
A Fuller Life
A Bird of the Air
To Die For
The Linguini Incident
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Eating Raoul
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Murphy Brown
Get Smart
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
The Day of the Dolphin
The Last Shot
Falcon Crest
Protocol
Aria
The Real Blonde
The Humbling
American Swing
Curtain Call
Old Boyfriends
Candy
Breakfast of Champions
Town & Country
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1999