Filmography: Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans eight decades (the 1950s to the 2020s). Allen began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books of short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker . In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village, where he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful ne