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Paddy Chayefsky

Won 3 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 5 nominations See more awards »
1971 Gideon (TV movie) (play / writer)
1955 Marty (earlier teleplay - uncredited / story and screenplay)
1955 Marty (associate producer)
1980 Fame (acknowledgement: excerpt from "Marty" courtesy of)
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Sidney Aaron | Paddy Chayevsky Edit In spite of everything, screenwriting is better than threading pipe. See more » 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. See more » Complex plot progression See more » Aquarius

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