Biography
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society. They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known (Ah, Wilderness!). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.
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Filmography
all 51
Movies 50
Writer 44
self 3
TV Shows 1
The Dancing Monkey (2023)
Three Dramas (2020)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2017)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2014)
Public Speaking (2010)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1996)
Lovely Child (1990)
Strange Interlude (1988)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1982)
Bloody Destinies (1982)
Sleepless Eyes (1981)
Anna Christie (1980)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1978)
Viaje por una larga noche (1977)
Ah, Wilderness! (1976)
Beyond the Horizon (1975)
A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975)
A Touch of the Poet (1974)
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1973)
Trauer muß Elektra tragen (1970)
Der Eismann kommt (1968)
Fast ein Poet (1968)
Alle Reichtümer der Welt (1967)
The Face of Genius (1966)
Trauer muß Elektra tragen (1966)
Tran (1965)
Der Strohhalm (1964)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
The Iceman Cometh (1960)
O Wildnis (1959)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Summer Holiday (1948)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
All God's Chillun' Got Wings (1946)
In the Zone (1946)
The Hairy Ape (1944)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Marco Millions (1939)
Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
The Emperor Jones (1933)
The Constant Woman (1933)
Strange Interlude (1932)
Anna Christie (1930)
Anna Christie (1930)
Desire Under the Elms (1928)
Anna Christie (1923)
Foggy Harbour (1923)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Monte Cristo Cottage: Boyhood Home of Eugene O'Neill
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1888-10-16
Deathday1953-11-27 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
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ChildrenEugene O'Neill, Jr., Oona O'Neill
FatherJames O'Neill
MotherElla O'Neill
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Drama, Nobel Prize in Literature, Laurence Olivier Award
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