Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest. Allen developed a passion for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues.

Filmography

• 2025Mr. Fischer's Chair — Narrator, Co-Producer
• 2025Second Chance — Original Film Writer
• 2024Death Knocks — Writer
• 2023Coup de chance — Director, Writer
• 2021How did Woody Allen become Woody Allen?
• 2020Rifkin's Festival — Director, Screenplay
• 2019A Rainy Day in New York — Director, Writer
• 2017Wonder Wheel — Director, Writer
• 2016Café Society — Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
• Crisis in Six Scenes — Sidney J. Munsinger, Director, Writer, Creator
• 2015Gianni Schicchi — Director
• 2015Irrational Man — Director, Writer
• 2014Après tout, si ça marche... — Original Film Writer
• 2014Barcelona, la rosa de foc — narrator (English)
• 2014Magic in the Moonlight — Director, Writer
• 2013Blue Jasmine — Director, Writer
• 2013Fading Gigolo — Murray
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2012Paris-Manhattan — Woody Allen
• 2012To Rome with Love — Jerry, Director, Writer
• 2011Bert Stern - Original Madman
• 2011Midnight in Paris — Director, Writer
• 2010Life Is Bearable at Times...
• 2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — Director, Writer
• 2009Whatever Works — Director, Writer
• 2008Vicky Cristina Barcelona — Director, Writer
• 2007Cassandra's Dream — Director, Screenplay
• 2006Scoop — Sid Waterman, Director, Writer
• 2005Match Point — Director, Writer
• 2004Melinda and Melinda — Director, Writer
• 2003Anything Else — David Dobel, Director, Screenplay
• 2002Hollywood Ending — Val, Director, Screenplay
• 2001Sounds from a Town I Love — Director, Writer
• 2001The Concert for New York City — Director, Writer
• 2001The Curse of the Jade Scorpion — CW Briggs, Director, Screenplay
• 2000Company Man — Lowther (uncredited)
• 2000CyberWorld — Z-4195 (voice)
• 2000Picking Up the Pieces — Tex Cowley
• 2000Small Time Crooks — Ray, Director, Writer
• 1999Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is
• 1999Sweet and Lowdown — Himself, Director, Screenplay
• 1998Antz — Z-4195 “Z” (voice)
• 1998Celebrity — Director, Screenplay
• 1998The Impostors — Audition Director (uncredited)
• 1997Deconstructing Harry — Harry Block, Director, Writer
• HARDtalk
• 1996Everyone Says I Love You — Joe Berlin, Director, Screenplay
• 1996The Sunshine Boys — Al Lewis
• 1995Mighty Aphrodite — Lenny, Director, Writer
• 1994Bullets Over Broadway — Director, Writer
• 1994Don't Drink the Water — Walter Hollander, Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay
• 1993Manhattan Murder Mystery — Larry Lipton, Director, Screenplay
• 1992Husbands and Wives — Gabe Roth, Director, Writer
• 1992Une aspirine pour deux — Theatre Play
• 1991Scenes from a Mall — Nick Fifer
• 1991Shadows and Fog — Kleinman, Director, Theatre Play, Writer
• 1990Alice — Director, Writer
• 1989Crimes and Misdemeanors — Cliff Stern, Director, Writer
• 1989New York Stories — Sheldon, Writer, Director
• 1988Another Woman — Director, Screenplay
• 1988King Lear — Mr. Alien (uncredited)
• 1987Radio Days — Joe (Narrator) (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1987September — Director, Screenplay
• 1986Hannah and Her Sisters — Mickey Sachs, Director, Writer
• 1985The Purple Rose of Cairo — Director, Writer
• 1984Broadway Danny Rose — Danny Rose, Director, Writer
• 1983Zelig — Leonard Zelig, Director, Writer
• 1982A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy — Andrew, Director, Writer
• 1980Stardust Memories — Sandy Bates, Director, Writer
• 1979Manhattan — Isaac Davis, Director, Writer
• 1978Interiors — Director, Writer
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Annie Hall — Alvy Singer, Director, Writer
• 1976The Front — Howard Prince
• 1975Love and Death — Boris Grushenko, Director, Writer
• 1973Sleeper — Miles Monroe, Director, Original Music Composer, Writer
• 1972Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask — Victor / Fabrizio / The Fool / Sperm, Director, Screenplay
• 1972Play It Again, Sam — Allan Felix, Theatre Play, Screenplay
• 1971Bananas — Fielding Mellish, Director, Writer
• 1971Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story — Harvey Wallinger, Writer, Director
• 1970Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You — Screenplay
• 1969Don't Drink the Water — Theatre Play, Screenplay
• 1969Take the Money and Run — Virgil Starkwell, Director, Screenplay
• 1969The Woody Allen Special — Self / Various, Writer
• The Mod Squad
• 1967Casino Royale — Jimmy Bond
• 1967Woody Allen Looks at 1967 — Self - Host, Writer
• 1966What's Up, Tiger Lily? — Self / Dub Voice (voice) / Projectionist, Director, Associate Producer, Writer
• 1965What's New Pussycat? — Victor Shakapopulis, Screenplay
• 1965Woody Allen: Standup Comic — Himself, Writer
• The Roaring 20's
• Philip Marlowe
• Kraft Music Hall — Self, Writer
• Untitled Woody Allen Film — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (89)

• 2026V-Town News — Himself (uncredited)
• 2025Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2025Twiggy — Self (archival footage)
• 2024Remembering Gene Wilder — Self (archive photo)
• Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Un día en Nueva York con Woody Allen — Self - Filmmaker
• 2022Groucho & Cavett — Self (archive footage)
• Allen v. Farrow — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On! — Self
• 2019Very Ralph — Self
• 2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael — Self
• 2018Always at The Carlyle — Self
• 2018CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel — Self
• 2017This Is Bob Hope... — Self
• 2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life — Self
• 2016Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women — Self (archive footage)
• 2016The Last Laugh — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Thirteen Talks — Self
• 2015Best of Enemies — Self (archival)
• 2013Ain't Misbehavin — Self (archive footage)
• 2013David Blaine: Real or Magic — Self
• 2013Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read — Self
• 2013Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love — Self
• 2013The Battle of Amfar — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2013The Unbelievers — Self
• 2013Trespassing Bergman — Self
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
• 2010… But Film Is My Mistress — Self
• 2009Vittorio D. — Self
• 2007100 Greatest Stand-Ups — Himself
• 2007A City Runs Through the Festival — Self
• 2007Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts — Self
• 2007Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow — Self
• 2007To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore — Self
• El hormiguero — Self - Guest
• 2006Filmmakers in Action — Self
• 2006The Devil and Daniel Johnston — Self (Archival footage)
• 2005Filmmakers vs. Tycoons — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The Outsider — Self
• 2004François Truffaut, une autobiographie — Self
• The Culture Show — Self
• 2004Words in Progress — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin — Self
• 2003Jack Paar: Smart Television — Self
• 2003Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar — Himself
• 2002The Magic of Fellini — Self
• 2002Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman — Self
• 2002Woody Allen: A Life in Film — Self
• 2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film — Self
• 2000Buñuel in Hollywood — Self
• 2000Light Keeps Me Company — Self
• 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy — Himself
• 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room — Himself
• 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV — Self
• Parkinson — Self
• Sternstunde Kunst — Self
• 1998Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion — Himself
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Just Shoot Me! — Himself (uncredited)
• Scene by Scene — Self
• 1997The Language Master — Himself
• 1997Wild Man Blues — Self
• Kulturzeit — Self
• 1986Meetin' WA — Self
• 1982The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell — Self
• 1980The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's — Self (archive footage)
• 1980To Woody Allen from Europe with Love — Himself
• 1979Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Please Turn the Page — Self
• 1977Woody Allen: An American Comedy — Himself
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• PBS News Hour — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• 1971Fight of the Century — Self-(Audience Member)
• Film '72 — Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel — Self
• 1971Woody Allen: Granada 1971 — Himself
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Titel, Thesen, Temperamente — Self (archive footage)
• Hullabaloo — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self, Self - Guest Host
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self