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The Duck Factory
''The Duck Factory'' is an American sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on NBC from April 12 until July 11, 1984. It was Jim Carrey's first lead role in a Hollywood production. It was also the only time when Don Messick appeared in live-action, although he also voiced a cartoon character in the sitcom as well. The show was set at a small independent animation studio, and was co-created by Allan Burns and Herbert Klynn. It won two Emmy Awards. Background Burns had started his career as a writer/animator for ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'' and '' George of the Jungle'', before turning to live action and co-creating ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''; Klynn had worked in various production capacities on '' Mr. Magoo'' and ''Gerald McBoing-Boing'', amongst many other cartoons. Overview The premiere episode introduces Skip Tarkenton (Carrey), a somewhat naive and optimistic young man who has come to Hollywood looking for a job as a cartoonist. When he arrives at a low-budget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gilford
Jack Gilford (born Jacob Aaron Gellman; July 25, 1908 – June 4, 1990) was an American Broadway, film, and television actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for ''Save the Tiger'' (1973). Early life Gilford was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His parents were Romanian-born Jewish immigrants Sophie "Susksa" (née Jackness), who owned a restaurant, and Aaron Gellman, a furrier. Gilford was the second of three sons, with an older brother Murray ("Moisha") and a younger brother Nathaniel ("Natie"). Gilford was discovered working in a pharmacy by his mentor Milton Berle. While working in amateur theater, he competed with other talented youngsters, including a young Jackie Gleason. He started doing imitations and impersonations. His first appearance on film was a short entitled ''Midnight Melodies'' in which he did his imitations of George Jessel, Rudy Vallee and Harry Langdon. Gilford developed s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Burns
Allan Pennington Burns (May 18, 1935January 30, 2021) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was best known for co-creating and writing for the television sitcoms ''The Munsters'' and ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. Early life Burns was born in Baltimore on May 18, 1935. His father died when he was nine years old. Three years later, he moved to Honolulu with his mother after his older brother was assigned to Naval Station Pearl Harbor. He attended Punahou School and illustrated a cartoon that featured several times a week in the ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin''. He studied architecture at the University of Oregon starting in 1953, after being awarded a partial scholarship. However, he dropped out two years later and moved to Los Angeles, where he secured a job as a page for NBC. Career Before breaking into television and film, he started in animation, working for Jay Ward and collaborating on and animating ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'', ''Dudley Do-Right'', and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheers
''Cheers'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television (original), Paramount Network Television, and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar and namesake Cheers Beacon Hill, Cheers in Boston, where a group of locals in the city meet to drink, relax and socialize. At the center of the show was the bar's owner and head bartender, Sam Malone, who was a womanizing former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. The show's ensemble cast introduced in the Give Me a Ring Sometime, pilot episode were waitresses Diane Chambers and Carla Tortelli, second bartender Coach Ernie Pantusso, and regular customers Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin. Later main characters of the show also included Frasier Crane, Woody Boyd, Lilith Sternin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Drake (director)
James R. Drake (December 2, 1944 – January 10, 2022) was an American film and television director. Drake's career began in 1974, working as an associate director for the Norman Lear-produced sitcoms ''All in the Family'' and ''Good Times''; he made his lead directorial debut in the syndicated comedy/soap opera spoof series ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'', which was executive produced by Lear. His other television works include ''Sanford (TV series), Sanford'', ''Gimme a Break!'', ''We Got It Made'', ''The Facts of Life (TV series), The Facts of Life'', ''Newhart'', ''Night Court'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''Dave's World'', ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'', its spin-off, ''The Suite Life on Deck'', and other series.James R. Drake, Class of 1963 wauwatosa.k12 His film credits includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thad Mumford
Thaddeus Quentin Mumford Jr. (February 8, 1951 – September 6, 2018) was an American television producer and writer. He wrote and produced for a number of television series spanning different genres, including ''The Cosby Show'', ''A Different World'', ''M*A*S*H'', '' Maude'', ''Good Times'', ''Home Improvement'', '' Roots: The Next Generations'', and ''Judging Amy'', among other series. Career Often collaborating with fellow TV producer/director Dan Wilcox, Mumford wrote scripts and/or produced for a number of television series throughout his career varying different genres namely, ''M*A*S*H'' (all of those episodes he produced were co-produced with Wilcox), ''The Cosby Show'', ''A Different World'', '' Maude'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Good Times'', ''Home Improvement'', the very short-lived but critically acclaimed, Emmy Award- winning animated/live action NBC-TV sitcom series '' The Duck Factory'' in 1984 (which starred a very young Jim Carrey), '' ALF'', '' Roots: The Next Generation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scooby-Doo
''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animation, animated media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative List of Scooby-Doo media, media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'', for Hanna-Barbera, Hanna-Barbera Productions. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured teenagers Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo), Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and their talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo (character), Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.CD liner notes: Saturday Mornings: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, 1995 MCA Records and its successor Warner Bros. Animation have produced numerous follow-up and spin-off animated series and several related works, including television specials and made-for-TV movies, a line of direct-to-video films, and two Warner Bros.-produced theatrical feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Welker
Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He began his career in the 1960s, and holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits as of 2022, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. With a total worldwide box-office gross of $17.4 billion, he is also the third- highest-grossing actor of all time. Welker is best known for voicing Fred Jones in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise since its inception in 1969, and Scooby-Doo himself since 2002. In 2020, Welker reprised the latter role in the CGI-animated film ''Scoob!'', the only original voice actor from the series in the movie's cast. He has also voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in ''Epic Mickey'' and its sequel; Megatron, Galvatron and Soundwave in the ''Transformers'' franchise; Shao Kahn and Reptile in the 1995 ''Mortal Kombat'' film; Curious George in the ''Curious George'' franchise; Garfield on ''The Garfield Show''; Nibbler on ''Futurama''; the titular character in ''Jabb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Brinckerhoff
Burton Field Brinckerhoff (born October 25, 1936) is an American actor, director, and producer. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his role as Igor in the play '' Cactus Flower'' (1965–1968), a Daytime Emmy Award for directing an episode of the television series ''The ABC Afternoon Playbreak'' (1973), and three Primetime Emmy Awards for directing episodes of the television series ''Lou Grant'' (1978–1982). Early life and education Brinckerhoff was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and initially raised in Ben Avon, Pennsylvania. His father, Rev. Dr. J. Howard Brinckerhoff, was minister of the Ben Avon Presbyterian Church, and Marion (née Field) Brinckerhoff. The family moved to New York City when Burt was five years old. His mother was director of Director of Christian Education at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Brinckerhoff became interested in acting while attending Horace Mann School. He performed in a senior class play and, after graduating, in summer stock theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Friedman
Kim Friedman (born November 14, 1949) is an American television director and producer. Friedman's TV career began by directing 70 episodes of the sitcom, ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'' for Norman Lear. She then moved on to directing the pilot for and episodes of ''Square Pegs'', followed by episodes of ''L.A. Law'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Dynasty'', ''A Different World'', ''Head of the Class'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''Babylon 5'', the ''Star Trek'' series, ''Deep Space Nine'', '' Voyager'', ''Lizzie McGuire'' and more. She also directed the ABC movie ''Before and After''. In 1988, Friedman was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award directing ''L.A. Law'' episode, "Handroll Express". Along with her TV career, Kim directed theatre: including at Joe Papp's The Public Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, and at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles. Friedman has also directed theater in London, as well as producing and directing the docu series ''The Real Normal'' and ''Here Comes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Baldwin (director)
Peter DuBois Baldwin (January 11, 1931 – November 19, 2017) was an American actor and director of film and television. Baldwin started his career as an actor, employed as a contract player at Paramount Studios. He played Johnson in the film ''Stalag 17'' and Lieutenant Walker in '' Little Boy Lost'', both made in 1953. In 1962 he played the role of murderer Tony Benson in the ''Perry Mason'' episode, "The Case of the Melancholy Marksman", and appeared in the 1970 Italian thriller ''The Weekend Murders''. Baldwin eventually became a television director with an extensive résumé. As well as directing many of the episodes of ABC's hit situation comedy ''The Brady Bunch'', he also directed episodes of other ABC hit sitcoms, ''The Partridge Family'', from 1970 to 1971 and ''Benson'', from 1979 to 1980. He was among the directors of episodes of the 1973 NBC sitcom ''Needles and Pins'' and of the 1985-1986 CBS sitcom ''Foley Square'', and also helped direct a few episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Winer
Harry Winer (born May 4, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. In addition, he is an Associate Arts Professor in the Undergraduate Film and Television Department at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Winer and his wife Shelley Hack are co-presidents of the production company Smash Media, which develops and produces content for motion pictures, television and new media. Personal life Winer is married to former actress Shelley Hack, with whom he has a daughter, Devon Rose (b. 1990). Selected filmography * ''Hart to Hart'' (9 Episodes) (1981–1983) * ''SpaceCamp'' (1986) * '' Heartbeat'' (1 Episode) (1988) * '' Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story'' (1992) * ''Men Don't Tell'' (1993) * ''House Arrest'' (1996) * ''Jeremiah'' (1998) * '' Lucky 7'' (2003) * ''Alias'' (2 Episodes) (2000–2001) * '' Felicity'' (10 Episodes) (2000–2002) * ''Veronica Mars'' (5 Episodes) (2004–2007) * ''Inva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hall (TV Producer)
Barbara Hall (born July 17, 1960) is an American television writer, producer, young adult novelist and singer-songwriter. She is known for creating and producing the legal drama '' Judging Amy'' (1999-2005) and the fantasy family drama '' Joan of Arcadia'' (2003-2005) as well as the political drama '' Madam Secretary'' all for CBS. She was a co-executive producer of the Showtime political thriller ''Homeland''. Biography Hall was born in Chatham, Virginia, to Ervis and Flo Hall. Her older sister, Karen Hall, is also a television writer and producer. She graduated from Chatham High School in 1978, and summa cum laude from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1982. Shortly after graduating from university, Hall became a television writer and producer in Los Angeles, California, and worked on shows including '' Northern Exposure'', '' Chicago Hope'', '' ER'', ''I'll Fly Away'', ''Anything But Love'' and ''Moonlighting''. Then she created, wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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