Woody Allen

Allan Stewart Konigsberg was born in New York in 1935 and grew up in Brooklyn; he had called himself Woody since high school. He sold jokes to newspaper columnists at seventeen, wrote for comedy television from 1955, then took to the stages of the Greenwich Village clubs in the early sixties. He moved into directing in 1966 and has kept up, since the seventies, a pace of almost one film a year. He long played the clarinet every Monday in a Manhattan hotel, and has often filmed in Europe since 2005.

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• CinemaAnnie HallWoody Allen · 1977Cinema