Woody Allen
Birthday: 1935-11-30
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest. Allen developed a passion for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues.
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Scoop
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat...
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Manhattan
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
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The Front
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...
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Small Time Crooks
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a sp...
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Deconstructing Harry
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, som...
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What's New Pussycat?
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love see...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new em...
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Anything Else
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young ...
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead....
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Don't Drink the Water
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international ...
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Zelig
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity...
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Stardust Memories
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspiratio...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Ke...
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Bananas
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American...
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Sleeper
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 year...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...
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Love and Death
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...
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Mighty Aphrodite
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes o...
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Play It Again, Sam
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him ...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphr...
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Take the Money and Run
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not...
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy docto...
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Picking Up the Pieces
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it ac...
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Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power ...
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Casino Royale
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...
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Antz
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches ...
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Everyone Says I Love You
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister ...
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Sweet and Lowdown
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
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Hollywood Ending
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desp...
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Broadway Danny Rose
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle in...
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… But Film Is My Mistress
Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman i...
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Husbands and Wives
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faul...
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s....
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Meetin' WA
Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with ...
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Company Man
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He he...
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western clas...
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100 Greatest Stand-Ups
Several people walk into a bar... The funniest comedians of our time stand up to be counted down in ...
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Scenes from a Mall
A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place o...
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King Lear
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Cherno...
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his l...
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To Rome with Love
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young ...
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Shadows and Fog
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g...
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New York Stories
Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" ...
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cine...
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Wild Man Blues
Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Woody Allen: A Life in Film
An account of the life and work of US filmmaker Woody Allen as told by himself....
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Woody Allen: Granada 1971
This is never-broadcast footage of Woody Allen being interviewed by Granada TV in Manchester in 1971...
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews w...
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Paris-Manhattan
Alice, an obsessed Woody Allen fan, meets Pierre in a night-club and falls in love with him. But whe...
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A City Runs Through the Festival
A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience....
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Light Keeps Me Company
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoir...
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The Outsider
Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be L...
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The Sunshine Boys
Two aging comedians, who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier, must overcome their ...
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How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?
A documentary about the life and career of Woody Allen....
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Buñuel in Hollywood
This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program ...
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The Unbelievers
Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and...
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Ain't Misbehavin
18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as on...
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To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
He is considered to be one of the most significant links in the history of comedy, admired by such p...
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The Last Laugh
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use hu...
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Fading Gigolo
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strap...
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Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talen...
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David Blaine: Real or Magic
David Blaine's signature brand of street magic mystifies the most recognisable celebrities in the wo...
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Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman
American director Woody Allen talks to English film critic Mark Kermode about the films of Swedish d...
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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial...
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To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a fi...
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Vittorio D.
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and famil...
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The Battle of Amfar
When AIDS struck in the early 1980s, a scientist and a movie star did not have to respond - but they...
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Life Is Bearable at Times...
Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska....
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Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
A collection of Ceasar's finest comedy moments....
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Woody Allen Looks at 1967
Woody Allen's whimsey is turned loose on the news, social events, and happenings of 1967. Such groov...
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian ...
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Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With intervi...
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Un día en Nueva York con Woody Allen
Spanish filmmaker David Trueba travels to New York to interview Woody Allen, who reviews his filmogr...
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Groucho & Cavett
Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic co...
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Radio Days
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...
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The Impostors
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find the...
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François Truffaut, une autobiographie
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborato...
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Fight of the Century
Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 197...
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Café Society
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film indust...
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004)...
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Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion
This sports documentary tells the remarkable story of the man voted the greatest boxer in history. S...
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The Woody Allen Special
The Woody Allen Special is a television special that premiered on CBS on 21 September 1969. Allen ho...
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Woody Allen: An American Comedy
Woody Allen talks about his career and his creative process with excerpts from some of his movies...
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This Is Bob Hope...
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mas...
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Trespassing Bergman
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
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Always at The Carlyle
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a...
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides...
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The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides...
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this docu...
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Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women
In the last 30 years of the 2nd millennium, John Casablancas created the Elite modeling agency and i...
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the ...
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Filmmakers in Action
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect...
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Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
Woody Allen's interview with France Roche....
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Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On!
This charming documentary showcases the career of musical-comedy sensation Kaye Ballard, whose abili...
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Barcelona, la rosa de foc
The many faces of Barcelona are portrayed in this documentary, shot in a false sequence shot that go...
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Woody Allen: Standup Comic
In 1965, Woody Allen was in England filming "What's New, Pussycat?". He was invited by Granada Telev...
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Very Ralph
The first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, reveals the man behind the icon and the...
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Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to ...
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CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a se...
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CyberWorld
A collaboration of computer-animated films which features new characters and old friends from the aw...
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Words in Progress
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals....
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Casting By
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma...
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Twiggy
Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name ...
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/...
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The Language Master
Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are mov...
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Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
The artistic career of American actress Mia Farrow has been that of a passionate and committed woman...
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Mr. Fischer's Chair
During the legendary chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, controversy rears its head...
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Best of Enemies
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great p...
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Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is
The famous sportscaster is recalled by his colleagues....
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