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Marshall Brickman

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Book Writer 1939–2024

Marshall Jacob Brickman (August 25, 1939 – November 29, 2024) was an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen, with whom he shared the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Annie Hall. He was previously the head writer for Johnny Carson, writing scripts for recurring characters such as Carnac the Magnificent. He is also known for playing the mandolin and banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in The New Yorker.

Also credited on2 works

Jersey Boys
The Addams Family

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature1 passages

  • We have a summer barbecue in our little alley every Labor Day. Sometimes, Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman, our writers, will send over ice cream, or beers, or Gatorade. Actually, last week, it was so hot that Jujamcyn sent over a Mr. Softee truck! They parked Mr. Softee right in front of Jersey Boys and everyone had a sprinkle cone betwe…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

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