In America, the term was associated with Paddy Chayefsky and other dramatists who created gritty plays for live television during the 1950s.
Paddy Reilly | Paddy Power | Paddy O'Connell | Paddy Ashdown | Paddy O'Brien | Paddy Moloney | Paddy Milner | Paddy Keenan | Paddy field | Paddy | Paddy O'Hanlon | Paddy Ladd | Paddy Kingsland | paddy field | Paddy Chayefsky | paddy | Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere | Paddy Toland | Paddy Johnson | Paddy Hopkirk | Paddy Hannan | Paddy Doherty | Paddy (disambiguation) | Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Conferences | Paddy Bush | Paddy Bedford | Paddy Andrews | The Night Paddy Murphy Died | Patrick "Paddy" Reid | Patrick "Paddy" Crean |
Beginning in the late 1960s, owing to the happenstance of having offices in the same building on 57th Street in New York City, Behn began longstanding creative friendships with screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, choreographer Bob Fosse and playwright Herb Gardner.
Debuting in television in 1954, Soriano soon starred in leading roles in Argentine premieres of Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man Marcel Achard's Voulez-vous jouer avec moi? ("Would You Like to Play with Me?"), Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and Carlos Gorostiza's adaptation of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon.
Altered States, a 1980 film based on the Paddy Chayefsky novel