Hotmail
Bud Yorkin
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  0 RatingRate this person:
Director, Producer, Executive Producer Born: February 22, 1926 in Washington, PA Biography:Born in Washington, PA, "Bud Yorkin" attended Carnegie Tech after service in the U.S. Navy beginning at age 16, and became a television engineer at NBC in 1949. He was already an established producer/director on television, specializing in variety shows featuring "Martin" and "Lewis", Abbott and Costello, and "George Gobel". He formed a partnership with producer "Norman Lear" in 1959, which yielded several Yorkin-directed films including "Come Blow Your Horn" (1965), "Divorce American Style" (1967), "Inspector Clouseau" (1968 -- starring "Alan Arkin"), and "Start the Revolution Without Me" (1970). In the early '70s, Yorkin and "Lear" created "All in the Family", a groundbreaking topical situation comedy that completely redefined television comedy with its relatively realistic scripts and subject matter, for which Yorkin was executive producer. Since then his film career has resumed without exceptional... Full Biography
| ||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
