Emmy Award Humanitas Prize Peabody Award Four Writers Guild of America Awards
Mel Tolkin (néShmuel Tolchinsky; August 3, 1913 – November 26, 2007)[1] was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows (NBC, 1950–1954) during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Danny Simon. The writers' room inspired the film My Favorite Year (1982), produced by Brooks, and the Broadway play Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993), written by Neil Simon.
Tolkin, who won an Emmy Award and every other major prize for television writing, was the father of screenwriter-novelist Michael Tolkin and TV writer-director Stephen Tolkin.
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MelTolkin (né Shmuel Tolchinsky; August 3, 1913 – November 26, 2007) was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy...
Moss Hart's autobiography, Act One, at Mamma Leone's, MelTolkin (standing in for Carl Reiner) and Mel Brooks performed, and it was later recalled by Kenneth...
of MelTolkin Mike Tolkin (born 1967), American rugby coach Neil Tolkin, a Canadian-American screen writer Peter Tolkin Architecture (formerly Tolkin &...
industry lawyer, and the late comedy writer MelTolkin. He is a 1974 graduate of Middlebury College. Tolkin lives in Los Angeles with his wife, author...
Caesar early in their careers were Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, Michael Stewart, MelTolkin, Lucille Kallen, Selma Diamond, and...
episode, due to a contract dispute. 115 7 "Mike Faces Life" Paul Bogart MelTolkin and Larry Rhine October 27, 1975 (1975-10-27) Gloria loses her job at...
odd jobs around the neighborhood including television and radio repair. Mel Stewart, as George's brother Henry Jefferson: The two appeared together only...
Your Show of Shows. Writers for the series included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, MelTolkin, Lucille Kallen, Selma Diamond, Joseph Stein, Michael...
Goldman, Al Gordon and Sheldon Keller (1966) Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner and MelTolkin (1967) Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan...
wrote for Caesar's Hour with Brooks, Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, MelTolkin, Mike Stewart, Aaron Ruben, Sheldon Keller, and Gary Belkin. He assumed...
Goldman, Al Gordon and Sheldon Keller (1966) Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner and MelTolkin (1967) Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan...
(played by Ron Orbach, inspired by Mel Brooks)" ... and "fussy Russian emigre Val (Mark Linn-Baker, inspired by MelTolkin) .... There is no character based...
Kallen, Bob Larbey and Harold Pinter. The American comedy writers Mel Brooks and MelTolkin contributed sketches in the early years of the show. The nature...
Late and a Dollar Short. Tolkin is the son of MelTolkin, the award-winning head writer of Your Show of Shows and Edith Tolkin, who was Paramount Pictures'...
received by American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer Mel Brooks. Over his 70 year career in film, theatre, and television Brooks has...
was followed by a featured part in the play Maybe Tuesday, written by MelTolkin. Newman starred in the New York production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap...
Goldman, Al Gordon and Sheldon Keller (1966) Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner and MelTolkin (1967) Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan...
Caesar, Keller worked with notable writers Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Selma Diamond, Larry Gelbart, MelTolkin, Michael Stewart and Gary Belkin. In 1956...
is a Broadway musical revue with lyrics by Alfred Hayes and a book by MelTolkin, Sam Locke, and Al Geto. It premiered at the Elysee Theatre on February...
Goldman, Al Gordon and Sheldon Keller (1966) Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner and MelTolkin (1967) Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan...
Goldman, Al Gordon and Sheldon Keller (1966) Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner and MelTolkin (1967) Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan...
Ryan and Tony Webster CBS Caesar's Hour Mel Brooks, Selma Diamond, Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller and MelTolkin NBC The George Gobel Show Everett Greenbaum...
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