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Neil Simon (born July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish-American playwright and screenwriter. He began his career as a TV comedy writer, most notably for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. He is the creator of all over 40 Broadway plays since 1961, ranging from humourous, blithe plays of the 1960s (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple) to darker, more autobiographical works in 1970s and 1980s (Chapter Two, the Eugene trilogy featuring Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound). Simon likewise contributed librettos to such hit musical comedies as Sweet Charity, Promises, Promises, and ''They're Playing Our Song''. His plays come known for their family-based Future York settings, in which globe-bored characters utilize a single-liners to hide typically-fractured psyches. Simon's 2nd married woman (of quaternity) was actress Marsha Mason, who starred inside many of his plays & motion picture. His brother Danny Simon ([http://imdb.com/name/nm0800105/ at the Internet Movie Database]) also was the TV comedy writer.
Plays by Neil Simon
Come Blow Your Horn
Barefoot in the Park
The Odd Couple
Sweet Charity
The Star-Spangled Girl
Plaza Suite
Promises, Promises
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
The Gingerbread Lady
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Sunshine Boys
The Good Doctor
''God's Favorite
California Suite
Chapter Two
They're Playing Our Song
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Fools
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Biloxi Blues
Broadway Bound
Jake's Women
Rumors
Lost in Yonkers
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
London Suite
Proposals
The Dinner Party
Films (screenplay by Neil Simon)
1963 - Come Blow Your Horn - Director: Bud Yorkin (with Frank Sinatra and Lee J. Cobb)
1967 - Barefoot in the Park - Director: Gene Saks (with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda)
1968 - The Odd Couple - Director: Gene Saks (using Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau)
1969 - Sweet Charity - Director: Bob Fosse (with Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera and Sammy Davis Jr.)
1970 - The Out-of-Towners - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Jack Lemmon)
1971 - Plaza Suite - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Walter Matthau)
1972 - Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Director: Gene Saks (by owning Alan Arkin)
1975 - The Prisoner of Second Avenue - Director: Melvin Frank (with Jack Lemmon & Anne Bancroft)
1975 - The Sunshine Boys - Director: Herbert Ross (with Walter Matthau & George Burns)
1976 - Murder by Death - Director: Robert Moore (with Walter Matthau, Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven and Peter Sellers)
1977 - The Goodbye Girl - Director: Herbert Ross (with Richard Dreyfuss)
1978 - The Cheap Detective - Director: Robert Moore (with Peter Falk)
1978 - California Suite - Director: Herbert Ross (with Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby)
1980 - Seems Like Old Times - Director: Jay Sandrich (with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase)
1982 - I Ought To Be In Pictures - Director: Herbert Ross (with Walter Matthau)
1982 - Sonny Boys - Director: Rolf von Sydow (with Carl-Heinz Schroth and Johannes Heesters)
1983 - Max Dugan Returns - Director: Herbert Ross (with Matthew Broderick, Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Kiefer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland)
1984 - The Lonely Guy - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Steve Martin)
1985 - The Slugger's Wife'' - Director: Hal Ashby (with Michael O'Keefe and Rebecca De Mornay)
1988 - Biloxi Blues - Director: Mike Nichols (with Matthew Broderick & Christopher Walken)
1991 - The Marrying Man - Director: Jerry Rees (with Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin)
1993 - Lost in Yonkers - Director: Martha Coolidge (with Richard Dreyfuss)
1995 - The Sunshine Boys - Director: John Erman (with Woody Allen and Peter Falk)
1998 - The Odd Couple II - Director: Howard Deutch (with Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau)
2001 - Sonny Boys - Director: Jörg Hube (with Werner Schneyder and Dieter Hildebrandt)
2003 - Laughter on the 23rd floor
2004 - The Goodbye Girl
2006 - The Heartbreak Kid
Awards
Tony Award - for his plays The Odd Few, Biloxi Blues & Misused inside Yonkers
Pulitzer Prize for Drama - for Lost around Yonkers
American Comedy Award - 1989 for his life's work
Golden Globe - 1978 for the screenplay for the film The Sayonara Girl
Media Interviews with Neil Simon
Simon reflects on the importance of creating the memorable character around American Film Foundation's series Screenwriters: Word into Motion.
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