Patricia Biow Broderick (February 23, 1925 – November 18, 2003) was an American
playwright and
painter. She was the wife of actor
James Broderick and the mother of actor
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in '' Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), the voice of adult Simba in Disney's ''The Lion King'' (1994) ...
.
Early life and career
Broderick was born Patricia Biow in New York City, the daughter of Sophie (née Taub) (1895–1943) and
Milton H. Biow (1892–1976), president of an advertising firm.
Her family were Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland.
[Stated on '']Inside the Actors Studio
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'', 2005 When she was 18, her mother died in 1943 at the age of 48. Her father died 33 years later. In Mexico, Broderick studied painting with
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, ...
who had been her art teacher at the
Dalton School
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in Manhattan. She began writing plays in the 1940s and several of them were performed in New York and London. Her 1996 screenplay for ''
Infinity'' was based on the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfl ...
.
Her paintings were displayed in several galleries in New York and across the country. Broderick's partner of her last six years was the painter
John Wesley.
Personal life
She married her first husband Jay Kaner in 1945, they divorced in 1947 after two years of marriage. She married her second husband, actor
James Broderick in 1949. Together they had three children, including actor
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in '' Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), the voice of adult Simba in Disney's ''The Lion King'' (1994) ...
.
Death
Broderick died of cancer on November 18, 2003, at her home in
Greenwich Village
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, aged 78.
References
External links
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Paintings by Patricia Broderickat
artnet
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1925 births
2003 deaths
20th-century American painters
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American people of German-Jewish descent
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Painters from New York City
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
Dalton School alumni
Jewish American artists
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Biow family