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Norman Lear
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor, Show Creator Born: July 27, 1922 in New Haven, CT Biography:American writer/director/producer "Norman Lear" was a graduate of Emerson College. After wartime air force service, "Lear" became a radio and TV comedy writer, gaining his first "fame" when he was publicly fired by "Martin" and "Lewis". With his friend and longtime collaborator "Bud Yorkin", "Lear" established Tandem Productions in 1959, for the purpose of turning out quality TV specials and comedy theatrical films. While "Divorce American Style" is a masterpiece of disciplined filmmaking, many of the "Lear"/Yorkin productions, notably "The Night They Raided Minsky's" (1967), and "Cold Turkey" (1971), ran hot and cold; each uproarious comic setpiece would be followed by a groaner, and by the end of the film the humor level had dwindled to chaotic shouting and running about. "Lear"'s best work of the '70s would be concentrated on television. In 1968, he began adapting the British comedy series "Till... Full Biography
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