Neil Simon: Career in pictures

Niel Simon, right, shown with his brother Danny Simon in 1984. Together, the brothers wrote for such 1950s television series as Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows.”

From left, Cyd Charisse, “Oh, God” screenwriter Larry Gelbart and “The Sunshine Boys” screenwriter Neil Simon pose with a life–size cutout of George Burns at a news conference before a 100th birthday celebration for Burns at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles on Jan. 16, 1996.

Neil Simon, right, with Joe Mantello, who directed Simon’s play “Proposals” at the Ahmanson, on July 2, 1997.