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He died in a New York hospital on August 1, 1981, aged 58, and was interred in the Sharon Gardens Division of Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York. [citation needed] Longtime friend Bob Fosse performed a tap dance at the funeral, [91] as part of a deal he and Chayefsky had made when Fosse was in the hospital for open-heart ...
Aug 2, 1981 · The playwright Paddy Chayefsky, a winner of three Academy Awards, died of cancer yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 58 years old.
Aug 9, 1981 · Paddy Chayefsky died on Saturday, Aug. 1, in the final act of a life as complex and colorful as anything he wrote, and in the middle of his return to the theater he viewed with love and...
Sep 1, 2024 · Paddy Chayefsky (born January 29, 1923, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 1, 1981, New York City) was an American playwright and screenwriter whose work was part of the flowering of television drama in the 1950s. He also wrote several critically acclaimed films.
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The end came Saturday when Paddy Chayefsky died, of cancer, in New York.
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays. He was one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television.
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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.
