Woody Allen

Directing • Born 1935-11-30

Directing2The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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.

Filmography

146 credits

Scoop

Movie • 2006

Sid Waterman

Manhattan

Movie • 1979

Isaac Davis

Annie Hall

Movie • 1977

Alvy Singer

The Front

Movie • 1976

Howard Prince

Small Time Crooks

Movie • 2000

Ray

Deconstructing Harry

Movie • 1997

Harry Block

What's New Pussycat?

Movie • 1965

Victor Shakapopulis

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Movie • 2001

CW Briggs

Anything Else

Movie • 2003

David Dobel

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Movie • 1993

Larry Lipton

Don't Drink the Water

Movie • 1994

Walter Hollander

Zelig

Movie • 1983

Leonard Zelig

Stardust Memories

Movie • 1980

Sandy Bates

Hannah and Her Sisters

Movie • 1986

Mickey Sachs

What's Up, Tiger Lily?

Movie • 1966

Self / Dub Voice (voice) / Projectionist

Bananas

Movie • 1971

Fielding Mellish

Sleeper

Movie • 1973

Miles Monroe

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Movie • 1989

Cliff Stern

Love and Death

Movie • 1975

Boris Grushenko

Mighty Aphrodite

Movie • 1995

Lenny

Play It Again, Sam

Movie • 1972

Allan Felix

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

Movie • 1972

Victor / Fabrizio / The Fool / Sperm

Take the Money and Run

Movie • 1969

Virgil Starkwell

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Movie • 1982

Andrew

Picking Up the Pieces

Movie • 2000

Tex Cowley

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

Movie • 1971

Harvey Wallinger

Casino Royale

Movie • 1967

Jimmy Bond (Dr. Noah)

Antz

Movie • 1998

Z-4195 “Z” (voice)

Everyone Says I Love You

Movie • 1996

Joe Berlin

The Magic of Fellini

Movie • 2002

Self

Sweet and Lowdown

Movie • 1999

Himself

Hollywood Ending

Movie • 2002

Val

Broadway Danny Rose

Movie • 1984

Danny Rose

… But Film Is My Mistress

Movie • 2010

Self

Husbands and Wives

Movie • 1992

Gabe Roth

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

Movie • 1980

Self (archive footage)

Meetin' WA

Movie • 1986

Self

Company Man

Movie • 2000

Lowther (uncredited)

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Movie • 2007

Self

100 Greatest Stand-Ups

Movie • 2007

Himself

Scenes from a Mall

Movie • 1991

Nick Fifer

King Lear

Movie • 1988

Mr. Alien (uncredited)

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Movie • 2011

Self

To Rome with Love

Movie • 2012

Jerry

Shadows and Fog

Movie • 1991

Kleinman

New York Stories

Movie • 1989

Sheldon

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

Movie • 2003

Self

Wild Man Blues

Movie • 1997

Self

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Movie • 2012

(archive footage)

Woody Allen: A Life in Film

Movie • 2002

Self

Woody Allen: Granada 1971

Movie • 1971

Himself

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

Movie • 1982

Self

Paris-Manhattan

Movie • 2012

Woody Allen

A City Runs Through the Festival

Movie • 2007

Self

Light Keeps Me Company

Movie • 2000

Self

The Outsider

Movie • 2005

Self

The Sunshine Boys

Movie • 1996

Al Lewis

How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?

Movie • 2021

Buñuel in Hollywood

Movie • 2000

Self

The Unbelievers

Movie • 2013

Self

Ain't Misbehavin

self

Life Is Bearable at Times...

Movie • 2010

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

Movie • 2003

Himself

Woody Allen Looks at 1967

Movie • 1967

Self - Host

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Movie • 2019

Self

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Movie • 2005

Self (archive footage)

Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Movie • 2007

Self

Un día en Nueva York con Woody Allen

Movie • 2024

Self - Filmmaker

Groucho & Cavett

Movie • 2022

Self (archive footage)

Radio Days

Movie • 1987

Joe (Narrator) (voice) (uncredited)

The Impostors

Movie • 1998

Audition Director (uncredited)

François Truffaut, une autobiographie

Movie • 2004

Self

Fight of the Century

Movie • 1971

Self-(Audience Member)

Café Society

Movie • 2016

Narrator (voice)

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

Movie • 2017

Self

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

Movie • 1998

Himself

The Woody Allen Special

Movie • 1969

Self / Various

Woody Allen: An American Comedy

Movie • 1977

Himself

This Is Bob Hope...

Movie • 2017

Self

Trespassing Bergman

Movie • 2013

Self

Always at The Carlyle

Movie • 2018

Self

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Mr. Fischer's Chair

Movie

Narrator

Best of Enemies

Movie • 2015

Self (archival)

Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is

Movie • 1999

Antz 2

Movie • 2005

The Merv Griffin Show

TV • 1962

TV • 1962

TV • 1948

Self

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

TV • 1998

Self

El hormiguero

TV • 2006

Self - Guest

Parkinson

TV • 1998

Self

Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy

TV • 2024

Self (archive footage)

Thirteen Talks

TV • 2016

Self

HARDtalk

TV • 1997