Marshall Brickman

Marshall Michael Brickman (August 25, 1939, Rio de Janeiro – November 29, 2024, New York) was an American screenwriter known for his numerous collaborations with Woody Allen. Also a musician, Marshall Brickman notably played banjo alongside Eric Weissberg in the 1960s. Marshall Brickman was born ... More

Marshall Michael Brickman (August 25, 1939, Rio de Janeiro – November 29, 2024, New York) was an American screenwriter known for his numerous collaborations with Woody Allen. Also a musician, Marshall Brickman notably played banjo alongside Eric Weissberg in the 1960s. Marshall Brickman was born in Brazil to American parents, Pauline (née Wolin) and Abram Brickman. After attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he became a member of the folk band The Tarriers in 1962, recruited by his classmate Eric Weissberg. When the group broke up in 1965, Brickman joined The New Journeymen alongside John and Michelle Phillips, who would later achieve great success with The Mamas and the Papas. He later left The New Journeymen to pursue a career as a television writer. It was at this time that he met the young director Woody Allen. The two collaborated on the scripts for Woody and the Robots, Annie Hall—a film for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1978—and Manhattan. In the 1980s, Brickman directed several feature films based on his own screenplays, such as Simon, Lovesick, and The Manhattan Project, as well as And God Created Sister Mary, a television movie adapted from a play written by Christopher Durang. He worked with Allen again in 1993, writing the plot for Manhattan Murder Mystery.