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As a screenwriter, he received three Academy Awards for Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976). The movie Marty was based on his own television drama about two lonely people finding love. Network was a satire of the television industry and The Hospital was also satiric.
Paddy Chayefsky. Writer: Marty. Author, producer, and composer who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from CCNY, then a Purple Heart during World War II while serving in the US Army. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborators included George Bassman and Harry Warren.
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Paddy Chayefsky, American playwright and screenwriter whose work was part of the flowering of television drama in the 1950s. He wrote several plays for television that were later filmed, including Marty, The Bachelor Party, and The Catered Affair. He also wrote the movies The Hospital and Network.
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Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay for "Marty" (1955), "The Hospital" (1971), and "Network" (1976).
Feb 28, 2018 · Chayefsky continued to write for stage and screen (both TV and cinema screens) and his major works in the 1960s included The Latent Heterosexual, a play, and a co-writing credit on the screen adaptation of a musical, Paint Your Wagon (also 1969).
May 19, 2011 · Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell. The screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) won an Academy Award for his jeremiad “Network” (1976), starring Faye Dunaway. United Artists.
