The comic genius penned 'The Graduate,' 'What’s Up, Doc?' and 'To Die For,' co-created 'Get Smart' and was a legend of 'Saturday Night Live'
With his sad visage, owlish spectacles and ubiquitous baseball cap, Henry crafted the persona of a playful egghead. He was described by the latefilm critic Charles Champlin as having the “operative demeanor of a kind of organized Wally Cox.”
Henry landed his first Oscar nom for the screenplay and received a second nom for co-directing the reincarnation comedyMost recently, Henry and Michal Zebede adapted Philip Roth’s 2009 novel for Barry Levinson’s, which starred Al Pacino as a fading actor and was released in 2014 after screening at the Venice and Toronto film festivals.
“[SINA was invented] for a host of reasons, most of them having to do with indecency and immorality,” Henry“Practical reasons, too: The high incidents of young people who became traumatized by their contact with naked animals and grew up twisted. And the high incidents of automobile accidents on the road near farms and ranches where people got glimpses of naked animals and swerved into trees. And we had charts proving this stuff.
Henry landed jobs writing for variety shows led by Steve Allen and Garry Moore, and when David Frost refashioned his British TV news satirefor American audiences, he appeared on the program and wrote for it as well., which featured several members of The Premise, Dan Melnick, a partner in the production company Talent Associates, approached Brooks and Henry about his idea for the comedy that would become“I’m going to tell you what I told Mel in a previous meeting,” Melnick told Henry.
“When the film was over [after an industry screening], I walked into the lobby, and a guy comes up to me and says, ‘Hi, I’m so and so, I’m at Universal,’” Henry
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