<text>  The Tony Award-winning director who brought to life many of Neil Simons works onstage and on screen has died. Gene Saks son, Daniel Saks, says his father died from pneumonia Saturday at his East Hampton home in New York. He was 93. A former actor who turned to directing with Enter Laughing on Broadway in 1963, Saks won Tonys for the Cy Coleman-Michael Stewart musical I Love My Wife and Simons Biloxi Blues. Tony Award-winning director Gene Sak died Saturday at his home in East Hampton, New York from pneumonia. Pictured above in April 1977 . He directed the film versions of Simon adaptations The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Brighton Beach Memoirs. He also directed the stage and film version of Mame, which starred his then-wife Bea Arthur. Saks directed Goldie Hawn to an Oscar for supporting actress in Cactus Flower. He could direct actors to be funny, but he wasnt funny himself, Emanuel Azenberg, who produced nine Broadway shows directed by Saks, told the New York Times. He would say, This is funny, in a very serious way. And youd laugh, because that was funny. All of those fundamentals - pacing, timing, line readings - that had to do with: If you said it this way it would be funny, but if you said it another way it wouldnt be funny. Thats what he was good at, Azenberg added. Saks is survived by his wife Keren, their daughter, and his two adopted sons from his first marriage to Golden Girls star Bea Arthur. Saks and Arthur. Saks and Arthur were married for thirty years before divorcing in 1980. She passed away in 2009. 