
Woody Allen
Biography
Woody Allen (born Allen 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.
Acting (108 movies)

Scoop
2006

Manhattan
1979

Annie Hall
1977

The Front
1976

Small Time Crooks
2000

Deconstructing Harry
1997

What's New Pussycat?
1965

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001

Anything Else
2003

Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993

Don't Drink the Water
1994

Zelig
1983

Stardust Memories
1980

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986

What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1966

Bananas
1971

Sleeper
1973

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989

Love and Death
1975

Mighty Aphrodite
1995

Play It Again, Sam
1972

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972

Take the Money and Run
1969

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982

Picking Up the Pieces
2000

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971

Casino Royale
1967

Antz
1998

Everyone Says I Love You
1996

The Magic of Fellini
2002

Sweet and Lowdown
1999

Hollywood Ending
2002

Broadway Danny Rose
1984

… But Film Is My Mistress
2010

Husbands and Wives
1992

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980

Meetin' WA
1986

Company Man
2000

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
2007

100 Greatest Stand-Ups
2007

Scenes from a Mall
1991

King Lear
1988

Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011

To Rome with Love
2012

Shadows and Fog
1991

New York Stories
1989

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003

Wild Man Blues
1997

Woody Allen: A Life in Film
2002

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982

Paris-Manhattan
2012

A City Runs Through the Festival
2007

Light Keeps Me Company
2000

The Outsider
2005

The Sunshine Boys
1996

How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?
2021

Buñuel in Hollywood
2000

The Unbelievers
2013

The Last Laugh
2016

Fading Gigolo
2013

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013

David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013

Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman
2002

The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
2000

To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
1980

Vittorio D.
2009

The Battle of Amfar
2013

Life Is Bearable at Times...
2010

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
2003

Woody Allen Looks at 1967
1967

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005

Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
2007

Un día en Nueva York con Woody Allen
2024

Groucho & Cavett
2022

Radio Days
1987

The Impostors
1998

François Truffaut, une autobiographie
2004

Fight of the Century
1971

Café Society
2016

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017

Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion
1998

The Woody Allen Special
1969

Woody Allen: An American Comedy
1977

This Is Bob Hope...
2017

Trespassing Bergman
2013

Always at The Carlyle
2018

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001

Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women
2016

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005

Filmmakers in Action
2006

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
1979

Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On!
2019

Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003

Barcelona, la rosa de foc
2014

Woody Allen: Standup Comic
1965

Very Ralph
2019

Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
2013

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018

CyberWorld
2000
Directing (56 movies)

Match Point
2005

Scoop
2006

Manhattan
1979

Annie Hall
1977

Deconstructing Harry
1997

Anything Else
2003

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001

Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993

Don't Drink the Water
1994

The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985

Small Time Crooks
2000

Cassandra's Dream
2007

What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1966

Zelig
1983

Bananas
1971

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008

Stardust Memories
1980

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986

Radio Days
1987

Take the Money and Run
1969

Bullets Over Broadway
1994

Mighty Aphrodite
1995

September
1987

Another Woman
1988

Sleeper
1973

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972

Alice
1990

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982

Love and Death
1975

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971

Melinda and Melinda
2004

Sweet and Lowdown
1999

Hollywood Ending
2002

Broadway Danny Rose
1984

Everyone Says I Love You
1996

Celebrity
1998

Husbands and Wives
1992

Interiors
1978

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010

Sounds from a Town I Love
2001

Shadows and Fog
1991

Whatever Works
2009

To Rome with Love
2012

Midnight in Paris
2011

Blue Jasmine
2013

Magic in the Moonlight
2014

Coup de Chance
2023

Irrational Man
2015

Café Society
2016

Wonder Wheel
2017

A Rainy Day in New York
2019

New York Stories
1989

The Concert for New York City
2001

Rifkin’s Festival
2020

Gianni Schicchi
2015