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Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest. Allen developed a passion for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues.

Films Featuring Woody Allen

Scoop

20066.6

Manhattan

19797.7

Annie Hall

19777.7

The Front

19767.0

Small Time Crooks

20006.5

Deconstructing Harry

19977.2

What's New Pussycat?

19655.9

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

20016.6

Anything Else

20036.2

Manhattan Murder Mystery

19937.3

Don't Drink the Water

19945.5

Zelig

19837.4

Stardust Memories

19806.9

Hannah and Her Sisters

19867.5

What's Up, Tiger Lily?

19665.4

Bananas

19716.7

Sleeper

19736.9

Crimes and Misdemeanors

19897.4

Love and Death

19757.5

Mighty Aphrodite

19956.7

Play It Again, Sam

19727.5

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

19726.5

Take the Money and Run

19697.1

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

19826.5

Picking Up the Pieces

20004.3

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

19716.0

Casino Royale

19675.3

Antz

19986.2

Everyone Says I Love You

19966.4

The Magic of Fellini

20023.5

Sweet and Lowdown

19996.8

Hollywood Ending

20026.5

Broadway Danny Rose

19847.1

… But Film Is My Mistress

20106.3

Husbands and Wives

19927.0

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

19804.0

Meetin' WA

19866.3

Company Man

20005.1

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

20076.6

100 Greatest Stand-Ups

20075.0

Scenes from a Mall

19915.2

King Lear

19886.5

Woody Allen: A Documentary

20116.9

To Rome with Love

20125.8

Shadows and Fog

19916.7

New York Stories

19896.2

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

20036.9

Wild Man Blues

19976.7

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Woody Allen: A Life in Film

20026.1

Woody Allen: Granada 1971

Woody Allen: Granada 1971

1971

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

19829.0

Paris-Manhattan

20125.4

A City Runs Through the Festival

20076.7

Light Keeps Me Company

20007.9

The Outsider

20056.8

The Sunshine Boys

19965.0

How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?

2021

Buñuel in Hollywood

20008.0

The Unbelievers

20136.4

Ain't Misbehavin

20136.2

To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore

To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore

20074.0

The Last Laugh

20167.0

Fading Gigolo

20135.8

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

20139.0

David Blaine: Real or Magic

20136.8

Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman

2002

The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV

20007.0

To Woody Allen from Europe with Love

19804.5

Vittorio D.

20096.3

The Battle of Amfar

20134.4

Life Is Bearable at Times...

2010

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar

20037.0

Woody Allen Looks at 1967

19678.0

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

20196.7

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

20076.0

Un día en Nueva York con Woody Allen

20246.3

Groucho & Cavett

20227.0

Radio Days

19877.0

The Impostors

19985.9

François Truffaut, une autobiographie

20046.6

Fight of the Century

1971

Café Society

20166.4

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

20175.2

Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion

19988.0

The Woody Allen Special

19694.8

Woody Allen: An American Comedy

19775.5

This Is Bob Hope...

20177.7

Trespassing Bergman

20136.6

Always at The Carlyle

20186.7

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

20008.0

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

20007.0

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

20017.4

Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women

20165.4

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

20056.8

Filmmakers in Action

20067.2

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen

19796.7

Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On!

2019

Jack Paar: Smart Television

20038.0

Barcelona, la rosa de foc

20145.5

Woody Allen: Standup Comic

196510.0

Very Ralph

20196.3

Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read

20137.0

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

20186.5

CyberWorld

20006.5

Words in Progress

20045.5

Casting By

20126.9

Twiggy

20257.7

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

20067.7

The Language Master

1997

Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light

20256.2

Mr. Fischer's Chair

Mr. Fischer's Chair

Best of Enemies

20157.2

Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is

19999.0

Bert Stern - Original Madman

20117.6

Remembering Gene Wilder

20247.2

V-Town News

2026