Woody Allen

Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans over 50 years. He has won the Academy Award three times, and many others in his very long career. His many works and his cerebral movie style, mixing satire and humour, have made him one of the most respected movie directors in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in most of them. To inspire himself for his movies, Allen uses literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived all life.

Early life
Allen was born at Mount of Eden Hospital in The Bronx, He was raised in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Nettie (born Cherrie; November 8, 1906 – January 27, 2002), a bookkeeper at her family's delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg (December 25, 1900 – January 13, 2001), a jewellery engraver and waiter. His family was Ashkenazi Jewish; his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. Both parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Allen has a sister, Letty, who was born in 1943, and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn.

Career
Allen started writing scripts for The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and other television shows when he was 19. He started working as a comedian in 1961. His first movie, What's New Pussycat?, was released in 1965. In 1966, he wrote his first play, the Broadway play Don't Drink The Water. In 1986. Allen's movie Hannah and Her Sisters made $18 million.

Personal life
Allen is a vociferous atheist, but of Jewish descent.

Allen has had three wives. He dated Mia Farrow for 12 years. However, they never married and lived in different houses. Allen and Farrow adopted Dylan and Mosche Farrow together. Mia said in 1994 that Allen molested her 7-year-old daughter, Dylan Farrow. In February 2014 an open letter by Dylan was published by the New York Times. In the letter, Dylan said that Allen had molested her. Her brother Mosche, who is now known as Moses Farrow, said that Allen did not molest her. Allen said the allegations were "untrue and disgraceful".http://uk.news.yahoo.com/allen-rejects-39-untrue-disgraceful-39-sex-abuse-232731191.html#osWnTRA On February 7, 2014, Allen wrote a response to Dylan in the New York Times.

In 1992 Farrow realized that Allen was cheating on her with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. She found naked pictures of Soon-yi in Allen's house. Farrow and Allen broke up. In 1997, Allen married Previn. Previn and Allen have two adopted daughters.
Filmography
Movies
YearFilmCredited asDirectorWriterActor Role 1965 What's New Pussycat?    Victor Shakapopulis 1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily?    Himself / Various voices 1967 Casino Royale    Dr. Noah / Jimmy Bond 1969 Don't Drink the Water    Take the Money and Run    Virgil Starkwell 1971 Bananas    Fielding Mellish 1972 Play It Again, Sam    Allan Felix Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)    Victor Shakapopulis / Fabrizio / The Fool / Sperm #1 1973 Sleeper    Miles Monroe 1975 Love and Death    Boris Grushenko 1976     Howard Prince 1977 Annie Hall    Alvy Singer 1978 Interiors    1979 Manhattan    Isaac Davis 1980 Stardust Memories    Sandy Bates To Woody Allen, From Europe with Love    Himself 1982     Andrew 1983 Zelig    Leonard Zelig 1984 Broadway Danny Rose    Danny Rose 1985     1986     Himself Meetin' WA    Himself Hannah and Her Sisters    Mickey Sachs 1987 Radio Days    Joe (voice) September    King Lear    Mr. Alien 1988 Another Woman    1989 New York Stories (segment: Oedipus Wrecks)    Sheldon Crimes and Misdemeanors    Cliff Stern 1990 Alice    1991 Scenes from a Mall    Nick Fifer Shadows and Fog    Kleinman 1992 Husbands and Wives    Gabe Roth 1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery    Larry Lipton 1994 Bullets Over Broadway    1995 Mighty Aphrodite    Lenny Weinrib 1996 Everyone Says I Love You    Joe Berlin 1997 Deconstructing Harry    Harry Block Wild Man Blues    Himself Antz    Z (voice) 1998 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies    Himself Celebrity        Audition Director 1999 Sweet and Lowdown    Narrator 2000 Company Man    American Ambassador Small Time Crooks    Ray Light Keeps Me Company    Himself Picking Up the Pieces    Tex Crowley 2001     C.W. Briggs Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures    Himself 2002 Hollywood Ending    Val Waxman 2003     Himself Anything Else    David Dobel Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin    Himself 2004 François Truffaut, une Autobiographie    Himself Melinda and Melinda    2005     Himself The Outsider    Himself Match Point    2006 Scoop    Sid Waterman Home    Himself 2007 Cassandra's Dream    2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona    2009 Whatever Works    2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger    2011 Midnight in Paris    2012 Paris Manhattan    Himself To Rome with Love    Jerry 2013 Blue Jasmine    Fading Gigolo    Murray 2014 Magic in the Moonlight    2015 Irrational Man    2016 Café Society    Narrator (voice) 2017 Wonder Wheel    2019 Woody's Roundup: The Movie    Woody's Roundup Announcer (voice) A Rainy Day in New York    2020 Rifkin's Festival   

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References

Other websites



 IMP Poster Gallery
 Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
 Woody Allen Movies
 La De Da: Annie Hall as Divine Tragicomedy  Essay Extended version of essay 
 Woody Allen in Barcelona. The shooting of a film. 

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