Most Recent Role: Himself on e-Talk Daily
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: 12-1-1935
Birth Name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: 12-1-1935
Birth Name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Woody Allen was born on December 1, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he started selling one-liners to gossip columns. After working a while as a stand up comedian, he was hired to write What's New, Pussycat (1965) in 1965. He directed his first film a year later, What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) in 1966.
Most Recent Appearance
September 12, 2007
Wednesday 12 September 2007 on CTV
We talk with Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell on the red carpet for their film Cassandra's Dream ; we chat with Brian Melo, the winner of Canadian Idol .
Woody has a life-size bronze statue in Oviedo (Spain) due to the Prince of Asturias arts prize he won in 2002.
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Trade Mark: His films are almost all set in New York City.
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Trade Mark: Nearly all of his films start and end with white-on-black credits, set in the Windsor typeface, set to jazz music, without any scrolling.
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Trade Mark: He frequently casts himself, Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow and Alan Alda.
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Trade Mark: He frequently plays a neurotic New Yorker.
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Woody Allen: If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
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Woody Allen: The biggest flaw in being self-taught is there are gaps. You self-teach yourself something and you think you know something fairly well, but then there are gaps a university teacher would have taught you as part of a mandatory program. I would probably have been better off if I'd got a better general education, but I was just so bored.
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Woody Allen: Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.
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Woody Allen: I was thrown out of NYU (New York University) for cheating on my Metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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Woody Allen: For me, being famous didn't help me that much. It helped a little. Warren Beatty once said to me many years ago, being a star is like being in a whorehouse with a credit card, and I never found that. For me, it was like being in a whorehouse with a credit card that had expired.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Himself |
The Merv Griffin Show
Himself |
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Anderson Cooper 360°
Wednesday, November 26, 2003 Himself - Video clip |
Celebrity Profile
Brooke Shields Himself |
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e-Talk Daily
September 12, 2007 Himself |
Film '72
Film 78 Special Woody Allen Himself |
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Film '72
Film 80 Episode 20 Himself |
Film '72
Film 80 Episode 24 Himself |
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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Show #126 Cameo |
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