Born on this day – Paddy Chayefsky:

Paddy Chayefsky

Writer

January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981

Credits:

Novel:

Altered States (1978).

Movies and television:

A Double Life (1947); A nagy üzlet (1974); Altered States (1980); As Young as You Feel (1951); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Danger (1952); Das große Projekt (1956 / 1971); Der zehnte Mann (1968); Die Mutter (1978); Ein Zug nach Manhattan (1981); Fame (1980); Faye (2024); Film '72 (1972); Gideon (1966 / 1971); Goodyear Playhouse (1952–1955); Gran Teatro (1964); Grande Teatro Tupi (1959); History Rediscovered: The True Glory (2012); Hollywood Insider (2021); Il grosso affare (1971); Iso keikka (1966); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1954); La madre (1971); Manhunt (1952); Marty (1955 / 1965); Mati (1958); Matka (1982); Middle of the Night (1959); Mitten in der Nacht (1971); Monitor (1959); Network (1976); O Grande Negócio (1973); Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992); Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words (2025); Paint Your Wagon (1969); Performance (1994); Plunder (1966); Release (1968); Star 80 (1983); Teatterituokio (1969); Teledrama (1957); The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame (1984); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The Americanization of Emily (1964); The Bachelor Party (1957); The Catered Affair (1956); The David Susskind Show (1974); The Ed Sullivan Show (1969); The Goddess (1958); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The Hospital (1971); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1969); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); The True Glory (1945); The Way We Were (1973); TV de Vanguarda (1956); Veliki poduhvat (1960); Welcome to the Basement (2012–2016); Your Place or Mine? (1976).

On this day in movie history - Network (1976)

Network

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Paddy Chayefsky,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1976.

Music by Elliot Lawrence.

Cast:

Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney, Kathy Cronkite, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Stanley Grover, Cindy Grover, Darryl Hickman, Mitchell Jason, Paul Jenkins, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Lynn Klugman, Carolyn Krigbaum, Zane Lasky, Michael Lipton, Michael Lombard, Pirie MacDonald, Russ Petranto, Bernard Pollock, Roy Poole, William Prince, Sasha von Scherler, Lane Smith, Ted Sorel, Beatrice Straight, Fred Stuthman, Cameron Thomas, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilen, Lee Richardson, Robert P. Cohen, Andrew Duncan, Todd Everett, John Gabriel, Tom Gibney, Lance Henriksen, Raymond Martino, John Pashley, Michael Tucker.

Recommended reading:

Mad as Hell:
The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies

by Dave Itzkoff.

Published by Picador.

Published 2015.

ISBN-10: 1250062241

ISBN-13: 9781250062246

Description:

"Dave Itzkoff takes us on an extraordinary journey, and in the process reveals Chayefsky's prognosis for TV, a prognosis we've chosen to ignore even as it's come true before our eyes." – Forbes.

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, "the mad prophet of the airwaves," took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall) directed by Sidney Lumet, the film won four Oscars and indelibly shaped how we think about corporate and media power.

In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen, and of Paddy Chayefsky, the tough, driven, Oscar-winning screenwriter who envisioned a world – outlandish for its time – that is all too real today. Itzkoff vividly re-creates the action behind the camera at a time of swirling cultural turmoil. The result is a riveting account that enriches our appreciation of this prophetic and still-startling film.