Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen’s Co-Writer on Hit Films, Dies at 85

Marshall Brickman, a low-key author whose present enterprise profession ranged throughout films, late-night tv comedy and Broadway, with the hit musical “Jersey Boys,” however who could also be finest remembered for collaborating on three of Woody Allen’s most enthusiastically praised movies, together with the Oscar-winning “Annie Hall,” died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 85.

His daughter Sophie Brickman confirmed the demise. She didn’t cite a trigger.

Mr. Brickman and Mr. Allen first teamed up on the script for “Sleeper” (1973), a science fiction comedy set in a totalitarian Twenty second-century America whose protagonist, a cryogenically unfrozen Twentieth-century man, poses as a robotic servant to avoid wasting his life after which units out to overthrow the federal government.

“Annie Hall” (1977), the Oscar-winning romance about city neurotics, was their second undertaking. Two good, insecure, witty singles meet at a Manhattan tennis membership, consciously couple, measure their lives in psychotherapy periods, discover lobster humor within the Hamptons and disagree about whether or not Los Angeles is past redemption. It received 4 Academy Awards: for finest image, finest actress (Diane Keaton), finest director (Mr. Allen) and finest screenplay.

The two males then wrote the screenplay of “Manhattan” (1979), a up to date black-and-white romantic comedy hailed on the time as a love letter to New York. It is now most frequently remembered due to its central relationship: a middle-aged man’s affair with a highschool woman (Mariel Hemingway), mirroring Mr. Allen’s personal scandal-tarnished later years.

“Manhattan” received BAFTAs, the British movie and tv awards, for finest movie and finest screenplay. At the Césars, France’s equal of the Oscars, it was named finest overseas movie.

In a Writers Guild Foundation interview in 2011, Mr. Brickman described his collaboration with Mr. Allen as “a pleasure and a life changer.” And if Mr. Allen, who directed and starred in all three movies, dominated the method, he mentioned, that was for the very best.