Oliver Sacks(1933-2015)

Writer
Actor
Cinematographer

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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2019)

Oliver Sacks was born on 9 July 1933 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Awakenings (1990), At First Sight (1999) and Wolf. He died on 30 August 2015 in New York City, New York, USA.

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Awards
- 1 win

Known for:

Awakenings

7.8

Writer(as Oliver Sacks M.D.)

1990

At First Sight

5.9

Writer(as Oliver Sacks M.D.)

1999

Wolf

TV Series

Writer

The Music Never Stopped

7.5

Writer

2011

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Writer

Re:Awakenings
- story
- Short
- 2013
The Music Never Stopped
- essay "The Last Hippie"
- 2011
The President's Speech
- Original Story
- Short
- 2007
At First Sight
- story "To See and Not See" (as Oliver Sacks M.D.)
- 1999
Awakenings
- book (as Oliver Sacks M.D.)
- 1990
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- book
- TV Movie
- 1987

Actor

Cinematographer

Trivia
Lived in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he swam in the local YMCA pool regularly.

Quotes
[interview in Newsweek magazine, 8/20/84] If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.