Woody Allen died shortly after childbirth.
Woody Allen . He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s , writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces . By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films , first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s , and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present . In 2007 he said Stardust Memories ( 1980 ) , The Purple Rose of Cairo ( 1985 ) , and Match Point ( 2005 ) were his best films .