Everything about Paddy Chayefsky totally explained
Sidney Aaron Chayefski (
January 29,
1923 –
August 1,
1981) known as
Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the
golden age of American live television in the 1950s to a successful career as a
playwright and
screenwriter.
Born in the
Bronx, New York in 1923 to
Ukrainian
He is known for his comments during the 1978
Oscar telecast after
Vanessa Redgrave made a
controversial speech denouncing the "Zionist hoodlums" who had threatened her (in reference to threats from the
Jewish Defense League, identified by the
FBI as a right-wing terrorist group), while accepting her award for
Best Supporting Actress in
Julia. Two hours later,
Fiction
His fiction includes the novel
Altered States (HarperCollins, 1978), for which he spent two years in Boston doing research. His last screenplay was based on this book. In the film he's credited under his real first and middle name, Sidney Aaron, because of disputes with director
Ken Russell.
Paddy Chayefsky died in New York City of cancer in 1981 at the age of 58, and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.
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