StatsBirth Name: Allan Stewart Königsberg Age: 77, born 1 December 1935 Country of origin:  United States Height: 5' 5" Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Relationship Status: Married Partner: Soon-Yi Previn
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Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright, whose career spans over half a century.
He began as a comedy writer in the 1950s, penning jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen started performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright, whose career spans over half a century.
He began as a comedy writer in the 1950s, penning jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen started performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he insists is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics, while a UK survey ranked Allen as the third greatest comedian.
By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into more dramatic material influenced by European art films during the 1970s. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late '70s. Allen often stars in his own films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. The best-known of his over 40 films include the Academy Award-winners Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Midnight in Paris (2011); and the Golden Globe-winning The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Critic Roger Ebert has described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema."
He is also a jazz clarinetist who performs regularly at small venues in Manhattan.
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 Born in Brooklyn (87 person items)"Born:December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York
Birth Name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg"
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This man is the very definition of the phrase "a bundle of nerves." You don't know all the veritable types of neuroses until you watch one of his films. Woody focuses on all the tics, annoyances, irrational fears and worries, ridiculous social customs, the forced politesse, the awkwardness of daily life, and everything psychological, psycho-sexual, Freudian and Jungian, that you can possibly think of.
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-Frequently casts Diane Keaton (now he focuses on the much less talented Scarl"
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 Most Accomplished ACTIVE Directors (2012 Edition) (50 person items)"2011 Rank: #16
2010 Rank: #13
2009 Rank: #20
a. Sleeper (1973)
b. Annie Hall (1977)
c. Manhattan (1979)
d. Zelig (1983)
e. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
f. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
g. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
h. Husbands and Wives (1992)
i. Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
j. Match Point (2005)
k. Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008)
l. Whatever Works (2009)
m. Midnight in Paris (2011)
n. To Rome with Love (2012)
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The Purple Rose of Cairo - 8/10
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Annie Hall - 8/10"
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