The American playwright Neil Simon, famous for his Pulitzer and Tony award-winning plays, died Saturday night aged 91 of complications from pneumonia.
With a list of credits that included Barefoot in the Park, and The Odd Couple, the host of leading actors who appeared in Simon plays and musicals on Broadway reads like a Who’s Who of stage and screen: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Robert Redford, Walter Matthau, George C. Scott, Maureen Stapleton, Christopher Plummer, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Tammy Grimes, George Grizzard, Jack Weston, Bernadette Peters, Martin Short, Linda Lavin, Gwen Verdon and Art Carney.
Of his more than 30 plays, 13 were made into movies.
His talent — and the laughter he brought audiences — will be sorely missed.
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in ‘Barefoot in the Park.’