American film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and comedian
While his Academy Award-winning directing and constantly turbulent public life may have obscured it, Woody Allen came to prominence in the early 1960s as one of the most recognizable standup comics of the day. His onstage character a nascent version of the nebbish he would later carve into an icon in dozens of films spanning from the 1960s through '90s, Allen weaved history,... Wikipedia