Biography
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 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.
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Awards & recognition
- Mark Twain Prize — American Humor · 2006
- Helmerich Award · 1996
- Kennedy Center Honors · 1995
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Play · 1991
- Pulitzer Prize — Drama · 1991
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- Tony Award — Best Play · 1991
- Laurel Award — Screenwriting Achievement · 1979
- Golden Globe Award — Best Screenplay · 1977
- Tony Award — Best Author · 1965
- honorary doctor of the Hofstra University
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Made for Television Movie · 2001 · nominated
- Laurence Olivier Award — Best New Comedy · 1997 · nominated
- Laurence Olivier Award — Best New Comedy · 1993 · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special · 1992 · nominated
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Play · 1991 · nominated
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Play · 1987 · nominated
- Pulitzer Prize — Drama · 1987 · nominated
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Play · 1985 · nominated
- Laurence Olivier Award — Best New Musical · 1980 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1979 · nominated
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Book of a Musical · 1979 · nominated
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Musical · 1979 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Book of a Musical · 1979 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1978 · nominated
- Golden Globe Award — Best Screenplay · 1977 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1976 · nominated
- Golden Globe Award — Best Screenplay · 1975 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Original Score · 1974 · nominated
- Golden Globe Award — Best Screenplay · 1972 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1969 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Book of a Musical · 1963 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Musical · 1963 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Author · 1963 · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series · 1958 · nominated
Filmography36 titles
Caesar's Writers
Frasier
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
The Odd Couple
Murder by Death
Barefoot in the Park
The Goodbye Girl
The Sunshine Boys
Sweet Charity
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Out of Towners
The Dick Cavett Show
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Max Dugan Returns
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
The Cheap Detective
The Odd Couple II
Lost in Yonkers
Seems Like Old Times
Biloxi Blues
The Lonely Guy
Plaza Suite
After the Fox
Chapter Two
California Suite
The Heartbreak Kid
The Out-of-Towners
Only When I Laugh
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Star Spangled Girl
The Marrying Man
Come Blow Your Horn
The Slugger's Wife
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years