Paddy Chayefsky
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Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both Adapted and Original screenplays.
Chayefsky in 1956
Ed Wynn and Kathleen Crowley in "The Great American Hoax" (1957), for The 20th Century Fox Hour
Chayefsky in 1958
Paddy Chayefsky's grave in Kensico Cemetery
Altered States
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Altered States is a 1980 American experimental surrealist science fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell, and adapted by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his 1978 novel of the sam
Paddy Chayefsky
…that the fast pace and overlapping dialogue was Chayefsky's idea. Upset by the filming of his screenplay, Chayefsky withdrew from the production of Altered States and took his name off the credits, substituting the pseudonym Sidney Aaron. In his book Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of…
Theatrical release poster