Famous People From New York
by To start with, the famous playwright Arthur Miller was born in New York in the year 1915. Arthur Miller became famous in the late 1940s courtesy of plays such Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Arthur Miller kept on working and writing up to his death in 2005.
The legendary Broadway director and producer George Abbott was also a New Yorker, born in 1887. The famous director, producer, and playwright lived until 1995.
The theatre actor, director, and stage producer Joseph Chaikin was born in Brooklyn in the year 1935.
Carrying on with the show business theme Woody Allen was also born in New York in 1935. Woody Allen became famous for being a film director, a prolific screenplay writer, and actor. His films have included Play it again Sam, Annie Hall, and Manhattan.
Born the year after Woody Allen was the actor Alan Alda who starred in feature films such as Paper Lion and California Suite. Alan Alda has also appeared in two popular television series the now iconic M*A*S*H and the West Wing.
The actress Lauren Bacall was born in New York during 1924. Her most famous roles include parts in The Big Sleep, Key Largo, as well as The Mirror has Two Faces.
Lauren Bacall is of course the widow of another famous New Yorker and well known actor, Humphrey Bogart. In 1899 Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City itself. As a Hollywood film star Humphrey Bogart had parts in some of the most successful films of the 1940s. Bogart starred in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep. Humphrey Bogart’s last years were blighted by ill health and he died in 1957.
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