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MARSHALL BRICKMAN
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MARSHALL BRICKMAN (Book), born in 1939 in Brazil to American parents, attended New York public schools and the University of Wisconsin, where he received a double baccalaureate in both science and music. He entered show business first as a member of the folk group The Tarriers and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of The New Journeymen, a precursor of The Mamas and the Papas, whose flamboyant lifestyle and eccentric harmonies defined the post-folk era of tuning up, turning on, and cashing in.

Trading in his Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo for an IBM Selectric, he secured a position as writer/director on Candid Camera, America’s original reality show. Beginning in 1967, he served as head writer for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In 1970, he left NBC for ABC to become head writer/co-producer of The Dick Cavett Show, where he stayed until 1972.

Mr. Brickman’s film work as author (or co-author with Woody Allen) includes Sleeper, Annie Hall (Academy Award), Manhattan (Academy Award nomination), and Manhattan Murder Mystery. As film writer/director: Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, and Sister Mary Explains it All. Brickman’s recording (with ex-Tarrier Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance, released in 1972, contained the surprise hit “Dueling Banjos,” which achieved platinum status, and remains a healthy seller over 50 years later.

His first foray into musical theater resulted in Jersey Boys — which won the Tony, Olivier, Helpmann, Grammy and many other awards worldwide — has been seen by over 20 million people worldwide and is one of the longest-running shows in the history of Broadway. Brickman’s other theatrical efforts include Turn of the Century, which played to capacity houses in Chicago, and The Addams Family, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, which ran for two years on Broadway and to date has had over 4,000 first- and second-tier productions internationally.

In addition to his work in film and theater, Mr. Brickman was published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals. He was the 2006 recipient of the Writers’ Guild of America Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement.

In November of 2024, he died at the age of 85.

MARSHALL BRICKMAN
Book

MARSHALL BRICKMAN (Book), born in 1939 in Brazil to American parents, attended New York public schools and the University of Wisconsin, where he received a double baccalaureate in both science and music. He entered show business first as a member of the folk group The Tarriers and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of The New Journeymen, a precursor of The Mamas and the Papas, whose flamboyant lifestyle and eccentric harmonies defined the post-folk era of tuning up, turning on, and cashing in.

Trading in his Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo for an IBM Selectric, he secured a position as writer/director on Candid Camera, America’s original reality show. Beginning in 1967, he served as head writer for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In 1970, he left NBC for ABC to become head writer/co-producer of The Dick Cavett Show, where he stayed until 1972.

Mr. Brickman’s film work as author (or co-author with Woody Allen) includes Sleeper, Annie Hall (Academy Award), Manhattan (Academy Award nomination), and Manhattan Murder Mystery. As film writer/director: Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, and Sister Mary Explains it All. Brickman’s recording (with ex-Tarrier Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance, released in 1972, contained the surprise hit “Dueling Banjos,” which achieved platinum status, and remains a healthy seller over 50 years later.

His first foray into musical theater resulted in Jersey Boys — which won the Tony, Olivier, Helpmann, Grammy and many other awards worldwide — has been seen by over 20 million people worldwide and is one of the longest-running shows in the history of Broadway. Brickman’s other theatrical efforts include Turn of the Century, which played to capacity houses in Chicago, and The Addams Family, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, which ran for two years on Broadway and to date has had over 4,000 first- and second-tier productions internationally.

In addition to his work in film and theater, Mr. Brickman was published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals. He was the 2006 recipient of the Writers’ Guild of America Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement.

In November of 2024, he died at the age of 85.