American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, and author, best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd. He was also known as a sympathetic director for women, writing strong and well-defined characters for them. Among his featured erformers were Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.

Much of Allen's comic material derives from his urban Jewish middle-class background. Intending to be a playwright, Allen began writing stand-up comedy monologues while still in high school. His introduction to show business came a few years later when he was hired to write material for such television comedians as Sid Caesar and Art Carney. In the early 1960s, after several false starts, he acquired a following on the nightclub circuit, performing his own stand-up comedy routines. His comic persona was that of an insecure and doubt-ridden person who playfully exaggerates his own failures and anxieties.

Allen's subsequent films contained a paradoxical blend of comedy and philosophy and a juxtaposition of trivialities with major concerns. The critical and commercial failure of the bleakly serious drama Interiors (1978) was followed by the highly acclaimed seriocomedy Manhattan (1979). In such later films as Stardust Memories (1980), Zelig (1983), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Side Effects (1989) and Alice (1990) .

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  Scoop (2006) (completed)

Match Point (2005) (written by)
Melinda and Melinda (2004) (written by)
Anything Else (2003) (written by)
... aka Anything else, la vie et tout le reste (France)
... aka Vie et tout le reste, La (France)
Hollywood Ending (2002) (written by)
Sounds From a Town I Love (2001) (TV)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) (written by)
... aka Im Bann des Jade Skorpions (Germany)
Small Time Crooks (2000) (written by)

Sweet and Lowdown (1999) (written by)
Celebrity (1998) (written by)
Deconstructing Harry (1997) (written by)
Count Mercury Goes to the Suburbs (1997) (story Count Dracula)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996) (written by)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (written by)
Don't Drink the Water (1994) (TV) (play) (teleplay)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (written by)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) (written by)
Husbands and Wives (1992) (written by)
Shadows and Fog (1992) (written by)
Alice (1990) (written by)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) (written by)
New York Stories (1989) (written by) (segment "Oedipus Wrecks")
Somebody or The Rise and Fall of Philosophy (1989) (story Mr Big)
Another Woman (1988) (written by)
September (1987) (written by)
Radio Days (1987) (written by)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (written by)
Meetin' WA (1986)
... aka J.L.G. Meets W.A.
... aka Meeting Woody Allen (USA)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (written by)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) (written by)
Zelig (1983) (written by)
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) (written by)
Stardust Memories (1980) (written by)

Manhattan (1979) (written by)
Interiors (1978) (written by)
Annie Hall (1977) (written by)
Love and Death (1975) (written by)
Sleeper (1973) (written by)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) (screenplay)
... aka Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (USA: short title)
Play It Again, Sam (1972) (play) (screenplay)
... aka Aspirins for Three
Bananas (1971) (written by)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971) (TV)
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970) (screenplay What's New, Pussycat?)

Don't Drink the Water (1969) (also play)
Take the Money and Run (1969) (written by)
Casino Royale (1967) (uncredited)
... aka Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
What's New, Pussycat (1965) (original screenplay)
... aka Quoi de neuf, Pussycat? (France)
"The Sid Caesar Show" (1963) TV Series (writer) (uncredited)
The Laughmaker (1962)
"Candid Camera" (1960/I) TV Series (writer)

"The Garry Moore Show" (1958) TV Series (writer) (uncredited)
"Stanley" (1956) TV Series (writer)
"Caesar's Hour" (1954) TV Series (writer)
"The Colgate Comedy Hour" (1950) TV Series (writer) (uncredited)
... aka Colgate Variety Hour (new title)
... aka Michael Todd Revue (USA: subtitle)
"Your Show of Shows" (1950) TV Series (writer)
... aka Sid Caesar's Show of Shows (UK: rerun title)