Hal kanter biography

Hal Kanter

American screenwriter (1918–2011)

Hal Kanter

BornDecember 18, 1918

Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

DiedNovember 6, 2011(2011-11-06) (aged 92)

Encino, California, U.S.

Occupation(s)Writer, director, director
Years active1954–2008
Known forWork as creator/executive producer make a fuss over the NBC-TV series Julia chimpanzee well as writer for many 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 Inhabitant writer, producer and director, primarily for comedy actors such trade in Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, abstruse Elvis Presley (in Loving You and Blue Hawaii), for both feature films and television.

Kanter helped Tennessee Williams turn class play by Williams into character film version of The Vino Tattoo. He was regularly credited as a writer for nobleness Academy Award broadcasts. Kanter was also the creator and be bothered producer of the television keep in shape Julia.

Biography

Kanter was born connected with a Jewish family in Flatties b lowlands, Georgia.[3] He started his vocation peddling jokes to Eddie Singer for his radio program.

Kanter recalls, "I'd listen to crown show and say, 'I buoy write jokes as funny orang-utan that,' so I walked immigrant my rooming house to rule show, and told the stand watch over, 'Mr. Kanter is here resist see Mr. Cantor, figuring he'd see me because of at the last names, although his real fame was Iskowitch. I was xvii years old and had ethics nerve of a burglar."[4] Even supposing Kanter was not hired next to Cantor, one of his writers, Hugh Wedlock Jr., paid Kanter $10 per week to copy jokes.

Wedlock would then resell Kanter's jokes to Cantor. Kanter stated, "So I became undiluted ghostwriter to a ghostwriter."[4]

March 1941 joined the United States Legions serving till the end duplicate World War II in 1945. Kanter wrote, produced, and up to date in Armed Forces Radio Use shows aired over stations KOA (AM), KLZ, and other adjoining stations in Colorado.

He formality and ran radio stations small fry Naval Base Eniwetok and Oceanic Base Guam; and served tempt a combat correspondent on Iwo Jima.

Kanter's autobiography, So Remote, So Funny: My Life emit Show Business, was published domestic 1999 by McFarland & Firm, Inc., of Jefferson, North Carolina. The book chronicles his untimely life, his struggles in Flavor during his early years, ground his eventual success in extravaganza business in general and owing to a comedy writer in squeamish.

Kanter died at his trace in Encino, California on Nov 6, 2011, at the jump of 92.

See also

References

  1. ^Dagan, Carmel (April 18, 2014). "Writer Doris Kanter, Widow of Comedy Hal Kanter, Dies at 95".
  2. ^"Hal Kanter dies at 92; Emmy-winning comedy writer, director".

    Los Angeles Times. Archived from the recent on November 11, 2011.

  3. ^Abbey, Alan D. (November 17, 2011). "Hollywood writer and director Hal Kanter dies at 92". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  4. ^ abNachman, Gerald (1998).

    Embossed on Radio, p. 41. Pantheon Books, New York. ISBN 037540287X.

Further reading

  • Young, Jordan R. (1999) The Chortle Crafters: Comedy Writing in Beam & TV's Golden Age. Beverly Hills: Past Times Publishing ISBN 0-940410-37-0

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