Oliver Sacks(1933-2015)

Play trailer2:04

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2019)

Oliver Sacks was born on 9 July 1933 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Awakenings (1990), At First Sight (1999) and Brilliant Minds (2024). He died on 30 August 2015 in New York City, New York, USA.

Known for

7.8

6.0

7.2

TV Series

7.5

Brilliant Minds
7.2
TV Series
- inspired by the work of
- inspired by the works of
- 2024–2026
Re: Awakenings
6.8
Short
- story
- 2013
The Music Never Stopped
7.5
- essay "The Last Hippie"
- 2011
The President's Speech
Short
- original story
- 2007
At First Sight
6.0
- story "To See and Not See" (as Oliver Sacks M.D.)
- 1999
Awakenings
7.8
- book (as Oliver Sacks M.D.)
- 1990
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
8.0
TV Movie
- book
- 1987
A Kind of Alaska
6.8
TV Movie
- inspired by book "Awakenings" (as Oliver Sacks MD)
- 1984

Trivia
Lived in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he swam in the local YMCA pool regularly.

Quotes
[interview in Newsweek magazine, 8/20/84] If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.