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Birth Name: William Saroyan
Born: 31 August 1908 Died: 18 May 1981
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United States
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Carol Grace
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Oscar winner and prestigious Pulitzer Prize recipient, William Saroyan, was born on in a Californian town of Fresno in an Armenian family of Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan.
His first literary works were published between 1928 and 1936 and he then worked as a Hollywood writer for B. P. Schulberg and Columbia Pictures. In 1939 and 1940 William Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands" and "The Time of Your Life" were staged for theater and "Love's Old Sweet Song" opened on Broadway and he received New York Critics Circle Award.
In 1942 Saroyan made a short subject film "The Good Job" for Loui
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1. The Banishment (2007)
| Rating: | 86 want to see |
2. The Human Comedy (1943)
| Rating: | 16 Watched |
3. The Time of Your Life (1948)
| Rating: | 12 Watched |
4. Ithaca
| Rating: | 9 Watched |
5. V gorakh moyo serdtse (1967)
| Rating: | 2 Watched |
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1. Today (1952)
| Rating: | 152 Watched |
2. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
| Rating: | 107 Watched |
3. The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
| Rating: | 32 Watched |
4. The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
| Rating: | 31 Watched |
5. Omnibus (1952)
| Rating: | 4 want to see |
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1. The Human Comedy (1966)
| Rating: | 5 own |
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4. Mama, I Love You (Yearling Classic) (1988)
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1. Omnibus (1952)
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2. Ragazza mia
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1. The Time of Your Life (1976)
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