# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:33:44.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-simon"
name: "Neil Simon"
slug: "neil-simon"
description: "Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006."
tagline: "American playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neil_Simon_NYWTS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1927-07-04"
deathDate: "2018-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump