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1907-1998 [bulk 1952-1981]Paddy Chayefsky, playwright and screenwriter, was born Sidney Chayefsky on January 29, 1923, in the Bronx, New York to Harry and Gussie (Stuchevsky) Chayefsky. A veteran of the New York City public school system, he attended Dewitt Clinton High School, and then the City College of New York. After graduating with a degree in accounting he joined the United States Army, where he took on the nickname Paddy. He served in the 104th Infantry Division in the European Theatre and was wounded, reportedly by a land mine, near Aachen, Germany.
While recovering from his injuries in the Army Hospital near Cirencester, England, he penned the book and lyrics to a musical called No T.O. for Love, which was first produced by the Special Services Unit in 1945, and toured Army bases all over Europe over the next two years. So successful was this debut that the show was brought to London, where it opened at the Scala Theatre in the West End. During the London production of No T.O. for Love, Chayefsky met Josh Logan, who would later work with him on his television and theatrical projects, as well Garson Kanin, who invited him to collaborate on his documentary of the allied invasion of Europe, The True Glory; these contacts would prove cri
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The Great Television Writers: Part 1 – Paddy Chayefsky
It is often said that the early 21st century is “the golden age” of television, with remarkable shows such as The Wire, The Sopranos and Mad Men enabling TV finally to cast off any supposed inferiority in relation to its artistic big brother, cinema. Indeed, it is often argued that the greatest screenwriting now is not for cinema but for television, and even that cinema has become a medium for children while television is the only place to find genuinely “adult” (as in grown-up and complex, rather than pornographic) ideas and themes being explored.
As always, the truth is more complicated than that. There have been great television shows and series since the extraordinary expansion in television from the 1950s onwards. Consequently, Martin Keady, our resident screenwriting historian and author of The Great Screenwriters Series, is now turning his attention to television and looking at the life and work of those writers who made the supposedly “small screen” truly epic in scale, in a new series entitled The Great Television Writers.
In the future, he will look at writers as brilliant and diverse as David Simon, Dennis Potter, Sharon Horgan and Carla Lane. But in the first part of the series,
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