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Eugene O'Neill

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugene O'Neill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Oct 16, 1888 In New York City, New York, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
3
First Appeared:
In the movie The Monte Cristo Cottage: Boyhood Home of Eugene O'Neill
Latest Project:
Movie Public Speaking 2010-11-22
Known For
Poster of Public Speaking
Poster of The Face of Genius
Poster of The Monte Cristo Cottage: Boyhood Home of Eugene O'Neill
Filmography
Movie The Monte Cristo Cottage: Boyhood Home of Eugene O'Neill Himself 2025
Movie Public Speaking Self (archive footage) 2010-11-22
Movie The Face of Genius Self (archive footage) 1966-03-21