Allen, Woody
Allen, Woody, stage name of Allen Stewart Konigsberg (1935), US film director, writer, and actor. As a young stand-up comedian, Allen developed his familiar persona of the neurotic wisecracking Jewish intellectual. He later enjoyed success in his own Broadway plays and his first film What’s New Pussycat? (1965). Since the late 1960s he has directed his own films, which range from light comedies to more sombre work such as September (1988). His best-known films
“If it turns out that there’s a God…basically he’s an underachiever. Woody Allen, Love and Death (1975)
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. Woody Allen, The New Yorker November 1973.
include Sleeper (1973), the Oscar-winning Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Bullets over Broadway (1994). In the 1990’s his popularity was affected by the damaging publicity surrounding his separation from Mia Farrow, his companion of a decade.
