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Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning co-writer, dies aged 85

Screenwriter co-wrote Annie Hall and Manhattan, penned the Jersey Boys musical, and wrote for Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show and The Muppet Show

Marshall Brickman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who wrote some of Woody Allen ’s best films, the Broadway musical Jersey Boys and a number of Johnny Carson’s most beloved sketches, has died aged 85. In his solo acceptance speech – Allen skipped the ceremony – Brickman referenced one of the film’s many oft-quoted lines, saying: “I’ve been out here a week, and I still have guilt when I make a right turn on a red light.” In one of the many twists of Brickman’s career, it was an album he and his college roommate, Eric Weissberg, recorded that later made the soundtrack to 1972’s Deliverance, including Dueling Banjos.

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