Woody Allen
Gender: Male
Born: 1st December 1935 (currently 76 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Alice, Annie Hall, Another Woman, Anything Else, Bananas, Broadway Danny Rose, Bullets Over Broadway, Cassandra's Dream, Celebrity, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Deconstructing Harry, Don't Drink the Water, Everyone Says I Love You, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), Hannah and Her Sisters, Hollywood Ending, Husbands and Wives, Interiors, Love and Death, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Match Point, Melinda and Melinda, Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story, Midnight in Paris, Mighty Aphrodite, New York Stories, Radio Days, Scoop, September, Shadows and Fog, Sleeper, Small Time Crooks, Stardust Memories, Sweet and Lowdown, Take the Money and Run, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The Purple Rose of Cairo, To Rome with Love, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Whatever Works, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Zelig
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, December 1, 1935) is an award-winning American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright, whose career spans over half a century.
He began as a comedy writer in the 1950s, penning jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen started performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he insists is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics, while a UK survey ranked Allen as the third greatest comedian.
By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into more dramatic material influenced by European art films during the 1970s. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late '70s. Allen often stars in his own films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. The best-known of his over 40 films include the
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