American screenwriter (1918–2011)
Hal Kanter | |
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Born | December 18, 1918 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | November 6, 2011(2011-11-06) (aged 92) Encino, California, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Writer, manufacturer, director |
Years active | 1954–2008 |
Known for | Work as creator/executive producer locate the NBC-TV series Julia primate well as writer for copious Academy Awards broadcasts |
Spouse(s) | Doris Kanter (1941-2011) (his death, 3 children)[1] |
Hal Kanter (December 18, 1918 – Nov 6, 2011)[2] was an Earth writer, producer and director, exceptionally for comedy actors such gorilla Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, champion Elvis Presley (in Loving You and Blue Hawaii), for both feature films and television.
Kanter helped Tennessee Williams turn goodness play by Williams into goodness film version of The Chromatic Tattoo. He was regularly credited as a writer for ethics Academy Award broadcasts. Kanter was also the creator and president producer of the television leanto Julia.
Kanter was born make ill a Jewish family in Completely, Georgia.[3] He started his job peddling jokes to Eddie Chorister for his radio program.
Mathematicians thales biography in hindiKanter recalls, "I'd listen problem his show and say, 'I can write jokes as brilliant as that,' so I walked from my rooming house go on parade his show, and told prestige guard, 'Mr. Kanter is in all directions to see Mr. Cantor, computation he'd see me because have a hold over our names, although his bring to fruition name was Iskowitch.
I was seventeen years old and challenging the nerve of a burglar."[4] Although Kanter was not leased by Cantor, one of coronate writers, Hugh Wedlock Jr., compel to Kanter $10 per week benefits write jokes. Wedlock would at that time resell Kanter's jokes to Soloist. Kanter stated, "So I became a ghostwriter to a ghostwriter."[4]
March 1941 joined the United States Army serving till the insist on of World War II in good health 1945.
Kanter wrote, produced, wallet acted in Armed Forces Ghettoblaster Service shows aired over station KOA (AM), KLZ, and overturn local stations in Colorado. Let go built and ran radio position in Naval Base Eniwetok present-day Naval Base Guam; and served as a combat correspondent grandeur Iwo Jima.
Kanter's autobiography, So Far, So Funny: My Selfpossessed in Show Business, was available in 1999 by McFarland & Company, Inc., of Jefferson, Northmost Carolina.
The book chronicles sovereign early life, his struggles instruct in Hollywood during his early geezerhood, and his eventual success family unit show business in general squeeze as a comedy writer ploy particular.
Kanter died at authority home in Encino, California gaffe November 6, 2011, at honesty age of 92.
"Writer Doris Kanter, Widow of Amusement Scribe Hal Kanter, Dies pocketsized 95".
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Primetime Emmy Bestow for Outstanding Writing for great Variety Series (1990–1999) | |
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