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Paddy Chayefsky

1923 - 1981

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Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (; January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. 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. His intimate, realistic scripts provided a naturalistic style of television drama for the 1950s, dramatizing the lives of ordinary Americans. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paddy Chayefsky is the 5,379th most popular writer (up from 5,415th in 2019), the 8,409th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,007th in 2019) and the 624th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Paddy Chayefsky ranks 5,379 out of 7,302. Before him are Sergey Gorodetsky, Willi Apel, Izzat Ghazzawi, Pat Barker, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, and Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir. After him are Furqat, Fang Fang, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Guerra Junqueiro, and László Németh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Paddy Chayefsky ranks 371. Before him are Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Bülent Ulusu, Jorge Romo, Halfdan T. Mahler, Lidiya Vertinskaya, and Adolfo Schwelm Cruz. After him are Eugénio de Andrade, Zeffiro Furiassi, Murray Walker, John Holt, Wim van der Voort, and Eric Wolf. Among people deceased in 1981, Paddy Chayefsky ranks 217. Before him are Rudolf Geiger, Pierre Korb, Lohengrin Filipello, Ariel Durant, Aníbal Ciocca, and Esteban Canal. After him are Louis Kuehn, Julio Quintana, Vera-Ellen, János Pilinszky, Leonard Howell, and Ichikawa Fusae.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paddy Chayefsky ranks 8,411 out of 20,380. Before him are Jonathan Pollard (1954), Curly Howard (1903), Charles Kieffer (1910), William D. Coolidge (1873), Marc Aaronson (1950), and Robert Bacon (1860). After him are Noah Wyle (1971), John Casper (1943), K. Eric Drexler (1955), Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926), Alan Ball (1957), and Haley Joel Osment (1988).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Paddy Chayefsky ranks 624. Before him are David Brown (1916), Michael Herr (1940), Bo Goldman (1932), Timothy Zahn (1951), James Lee Burke (1936), and Robin Morgan (1941). After him are Frank O'Hara (1926), Katherine Neville (1945), Elmer Rice (1892), John Greenleaf Whittier (1807), Eve Ensler (1953), and John Holt (1923).

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