Blog Post Happy Birthday, Carl Reiner! He starred in Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour , created The Dick Van Dyke Show , and interviewed the 2000 Year Old Man. And today, he turns 93! Happy birthday, Carl Reiner ! Reiner has 9 Emmy wins under his belt, the most recent of which was earned for a rather unique performance. In 1995,...
Blog Post Remembering Walter Grauman We're sad to hear that director Walter E. Grauman passed away on Friday, March 20, 2015 at the age of 93. Grauman began his career in the television industry as a co-producer (with Alan A. Armer ) of the talent-search series Lights, Camera, Action . He broke into network television directing for...
Blog Post By Ken Levine and David Isaacs M*A*S*H , Cheers , The Simpsons , Frasier . Sounds like part of a top ten list of the greatest television comedies of all time. And it may be, but astoundingly, it’s also just a partial list of the writing credits for Ken Levine and David Isaacs . In a joint venture with The Archive of American...
Blog Post Remembering Milton Delugg We’re sad to learn that music director Milton Delugg passed away on Monday, April 6, 2015 at the age of 96. Delugg worked in network radio and early television with Abe Burrows and Morey Amsterdam. He was a conductor (and accordion player) on the variety series Broadway Open House , a precursor to...
Blog Post Remembering Robert Schuller We're sad to hear that religious broadcaster Dr. Robert Schuller passed away on April 2, 2015 in Artesia, CA at the age of 88. Schuller grew up on a farm in Iowa, felt his calling to religion and eventually moved to California. He formed the Garden Grove Community Church, where he first preached to...
Blog Post Remembering Bob Simon We're sad to hear that CBS News correspondent Bob Simon died in a car crash yesterday in Manhattan, NY. Simon was 73 years old. He began working at CBS News in 1967 and was soon offered a position in CBS' London Bureau. Simon reported on the conflicts in Northern Ireland, and later covered the...
Blog Post Remembering Sanford Socolow We're sad to learn that CBS News producer Sanford Socolow passed away on Saturday, January 31, 2015 in New York City at the age of 86. Socolow worked for the International News Service (INS) in the early 1950s as a Far East Correspondent and started his work at CBS in the mid-50s, writing for Ned...
Blog Post Remembering Tony Verna We're sad to learn that director Tony Verna passed away from acute leukemia on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at the age of 81. Verna broke into the business in local television at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, where he worked on the local show Big Top and the original version of American Bandstand , then...
Blog Post Garry Marshall Turns 80! “On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence…” So goes the opening for the TV series T he Odd Couple . November 13th also happens to be the birthday of the creator of that show, Garry Marshall . Today is his 80th, and we at the Archive celebrate Marshall’s...
Blog Post Remembering Ernest Kinoy We're sad to hear of the passing of writer Ernest Kinoy , who died on Monday, November 10, 2014 at the age of 89. Kinoy started his career writing for NBC radio and went on to write for many live dramatic television shows including: Studio One , Philco-Goodyear Playhouse , Playhouse 90 , and DuPont...
