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. His popular-song compositions include "Marty" and "Middle of the Night".
Graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School [1939]
Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as author of a Best Play nominee: in 1960 for "The Tenth Man" and in 1962 for "Gideon."
In 1977, he (alongside Eletha Finch) accepted the posthumous Oscar for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" on behalf of 彼得·芬奇
He is one of only five people to have won three Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and the only one to have won all of them solo. The other three time winners are 伍迪·艾伦, 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉, 查尔斯·布拉克特 and 比利·怀德.
Sidney Aaron Chayefsky received his more familiar nickname of Paddy while in the army during World War II. One Friday night, pork was being served in the mess hall. Rather than eat food forbidden him as an orthodox Jew, he said, in a put-on Irish brogue, that he was forbidden from eating meat on a Friday. His fellow soldiers, amused by this, started calling him Paddy, and the nickname stuck.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 147-149. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
Was good friends with 西德尼·吕美特. 电视台风云 (1976) was the only film they did together.
Friend of 加森·卡宁.
Upon his death, his remains were interred at Sharon Gardens Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.
Father of writer Dan Chayefsky with Susan Sackler.
Unlikely as it sounds, Chayefsky scripted draft versions of both "The Cincinnati Kid" and "Ice Station Zebra", though the eventual films were made from different screenplays by other writers. Both films were produced by Martin Ransohoff, who also produced "The Americanization Of Emily", which did use a Chayefsky screenplay. Several years earlier, he was mentioned as a possible scriptwriter for "Cleopatra", an even more unlikely subject for him; he would appear to have passed on this idea.
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