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Marshall Brickman

 
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  • Born: Aug 25, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Occupation: Writer, Director
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Thriller
  • Career Highlights: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Sleeper
  • First Major Screen Credit: Sleeper (1973)

Biography

Born in Brazil to American parents, Marshall Brickman paid his way through college as a folksinger. While still in his teens, Brickman was a member of the Tarriers, a group which also included future actor Alan Arkin. Turning to writing, Brickman penned special material for Candid Camera, then hit the talk show circuit, winning an Emmy for his work on The Dick Cavett Show. Through Cavett, Brickman became acquainted with Woody Allen; he would collaborate on the scripts of some of Allen's best films of the 1970s. In 1977, Brickman and Allen shared an Oscar for the screenplay of Annie Hall (both men should have gotten Purple Hearts, considering the numerous torturous rewrites the script underwent before emerging on the screen). As a solo director, Brickman has displayed an acute gift for timing and a delightful sense of the ridiculous, though the quality of his films lacks the consistency of his Woody Allen collaborations. Brickman's best directorial effort was 1980's Simon, an identity-crisis science fiction satire starring Brickman's onetime fellow "Tarrier" Alan Arkin; his weakest effort was the teen-oriented flick The Manhattan Project (1985). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Marshall Brickman
Born August 25, 1941 (1941-08-25) (age 68)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for being an excellent banjo player together with Eric Weissberg back in the 1960s.

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Biography

After attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he became a member of Folk act The Tarriers in 1962, recruited by former classmate Eric Weissberg. Upon the disbanding of The Tarriers in 1965, Brickman joined The New Journeymen with John Phillips and Michelle Phillips who later had success with The Mamas & the Papas. He left The New Journeymen in order to pursue a career as a writer, initially writing for television in the 1960s, including Candid Camera, The Tonight Show, The Dick Cavett Show. It was during this time that he met Allen, with whom he would collaborate on several 1970s film scripts, including Sleeper, Annie Hall (which won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award), and Manhattan.

Brickman directed several of his own scripts in the 1980s, including Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, and Sister Mary Explains it All, none of which were commercial successes. He reunited with Allen in 1993 to write Manhattan Murder Mystery.

His latest venture is the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys. Along with partner Rick Elice, Mr. Brickman wrote the book. Recently, Brickman has collaborated with Elice once again, this time writing the book for the musical The Addams Family.[1]

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  1. ^ Riedel, Michael (2009-01-30). "Good Reviews Come from Inventation-Only Reading of The Addams Family Musical". New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/seven/01302009/entertainment/theater/up__addams_152662.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 

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