---
name: "Alfred Uhry"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alfred-uhry"
fi1m_id: "alfred-uhry"
imdb_id: "nm0880261"
tmdb_id: 5697
wikidata_id: "Q766468"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "3 December 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-11T22:44:52.956482+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alfred Uhry

## Identity

Alfred Uhry

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alfred-uhry
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alfred-uhry
- **IMDb ID:** nm0880261
- **TMDB ID:** 5697
- **Wikidata ID:** Q766468
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Uhry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766468, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0880261/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5697

Producer. Born 3 December 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 3 December 1936, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- **Also known as:** Alfred Fox Uhry
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Uhry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766468, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0880261/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5697

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Driving Miss Daisy*](https://film.one/film/driving-miss-daisy.md) (68)

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## Biography

Alfred Uhry is an American playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 3 December 1936 and graduated from Brown University in 1958.

Uhry wrote the play *Driving Miss Daisy* (1987), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and adapted it into the screenplay for the 1989 film. He co-wrote the screenplay for *Mystic Pizza* (1988) and has written other plays including *The Last Night of Ballyhoo* (1996) and the book for the musical *Parade* (1998). He is the only person to have received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Driving Miss Daisy* (1989), Fi1m 68, Theatre Play, Associate Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/driving-miss-daisy.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Driving Miss Daisy* (2015), Theatre Play
- *Paradise Road* (1997), Script Consultant
- *Rich in Love* (1992), Screenplay
- *Driving Miss Daisy* (1989), Screenplay, Theatre Play, Associate Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/driving-miss-daisy.md)
- *Mystic Pizza* (1988), Screenplay
- *Little Johnny Jones* (1980), Adaptation
- *The Robber Bridegroom* (1980), Lyricist, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Alfred Uhry](https://film.one/media/person/1247956/gallery-786e35f159fd.jpg) Alfred Uhry — LizzieMac63, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Alfred_Uhry_headshots-4.jpg/1280px-Alfred_Uhry_headshots-4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alfred Uhry (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/1247956/gallery-e37ed8964e41.jpg) Alfred Uhry (2013) — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Alfred_Uhry.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1990: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Driving Miss Daisy*

### Other awards — 3 won

- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical 1999: Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (won), for *Parade*
- Tony Award for Best Play 1997: Tony Award for Best Play (won), for *The Last Night of Ballyhoo*
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1988: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won), for *Driving Miss Daisy*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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