Auteur

Neil Simon

1927–2018 · American playwright, writer, and academic

Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.

Neil Simon, in order

  1. 1963 Come Blow Your Horn: wrote · directed by Bud Yorkin
  2. 1966 After the Fox: wrote · directed by Vittorio De Sica
  3. 1967 Barefoot in the Park: wrote · directed by Gene Saks
  4. 1968 The Odd Couple: wrote · directed by Gene Saks
  5. 1969 Sweet Charity: wrote · directed by Bob Fosse
  6. 1970 The Out-of-Towners: wrote · directed by Arthur Hiller
  7. 1971 Plaza Suite: wrote · directed by Arthur Hiller
  8. 1971 Star Spangled Girl: wrote · directed by Jerry Paris
  9. 1972 Last of the Red Hot Lovers: wrote · directed by Gene Saks
  10. 1972 The Heartbreak Kid: wrote, acted · directed by Elaine May · critics 92%, audiences 73%
  11. 1975 The Prisoner of Second Avenue: wrote · directed by Melvin Frank
  12. 1975 The Sunshine Boys: wrote · directed by Herbert Ross
  13. 1976 Murder by Death: wrote · directed by Robert Moore
  14. 1977 The Goodbye Girl: wrote · directed by Herbert Ross · critics 77%, audiences 85% · streaming on Hoopla, Plex, Tubi
  15. 1978 California Suite: wrote · directed by Herbert Ross · critics 48%, audiences 45% · streaming on Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
  16. 1978 The Cheap Detective: wrote · directed by Robert Moore
  17. 1979 Chapter Two: wrote · directed by Robert Moore
  18. 1980 Seems Like Old Times: wrote · directed by Jay Sandrich
  19. 1981 Only When I Laugh: wrote, produced · directed by Glenn Jordan
  20. 1982 Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures: wrote, produced · directed by Herbert Ross
  21. 1983 Max Dugan Returns: wrote, produced · directed by Herbert Ross
  22. 1984 The Lonely Guy: wrote · directed by Arthur Hiller
  23. 1985 The Slugger's Wife: wrote · directed by Hal Ashby · critics 0%, audiences 20% · streaming on Roku Channel
  24. 1986 American Masters (TV series): acted · directed by Charles Atlas and Christian Blackwood
  25. 1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs: wrote · directed by Gene Saks
  26. 1988 Biloxi Blues: wrote · directed by Mike Nichols
  27. 1991 The Marrying Man: wrote · directed by Jerry Rees
  28. 1992 Broadway Bound: wrote · directed by Paul Bogart
  29. 1993 Lost in Yonkers: wrote · directed by Martha Coolidge
  30. 1995 Sonny Boys (TV movie): wrote · directed by John Erman
  31. 1996 London Suite (TV movie): wrote · directed by Jay Sandrich
  32. 1997 Pitch: acted · directed by Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice
  33. 1998 The Odd Couple II: wrote · directed by Howard Deutch
  34. 1999 The Out-of-Towners: wrote · directed by Sam Weisman
  35. 2007 La strana coppia (TV series): created
  36. 2007 The Heartbreak Kid: wrote · directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly