Paddy Chayefsky

Paddy Chayefsky
Date of Birth: 29 Jan 1923
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 13 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Writer (13)
Network
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. (IMDB.com)
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Altered States
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. (imdb)
+3
The Hospital
Black comedy in which a suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital. (imdb)
+8
The Americanization of Emily
An American soldier's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission. (imdb)
+4
Marty
Marty is a lonely butcher approaching middle-age. His Italian mother is incessantly hounding him to get married... (imdb)
Paint Your Wagon
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. (imdb)
The Bachelor Party
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes. (imdb)
The Catered Affair
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates... (imdb)
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Middle of the Night
The May-December relationship between a widower and a young woman in his employ is threatened by the opinions and biases of family, friends and colleagues.
As Young as You Feel
After being forced to retire, 65-year-old John Hodges impersonates the president of his company's parent corporation (since no one, indeed, has ever seen the man or knows his name) in order to change the company's policy on older workers and get his job back. However, after he gives a speech in the president's name and meets his real boss' wife, who falls for him, things get more complicated...
+3
The Goddess
Hard-luck, small-town girl escapes into dreams of movie stardom. Her bombshell success can not mask her loneliness and emotional wounds.
The True Glory
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. (imdb)
The Philco Television Playhouse
This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc... during its eight year run.