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Mel Tolkin
Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born April 3, 1913Died November 26, 2007 (94 years)
Mel Tolkin, né Shmuel Tolchinsky, was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows 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.
Filmography
| 1981 | Love, Sidney (TV Series) |
| 1980 | Sanford (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Archie Bunker's Place (TV Series) |
| 1973 | |
| 1971 | |
| 1971 | All in the Family (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Good Guys (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Run, Buddy, Run (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Last of the Secret Agents? · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | The Hollywood Palace (TV Series) |
| 1962 | I'm Dickens... He's Fenster (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Margie (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Bachelor Father (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Producers' Showcase (TV Series) |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows (TV Series) |
| 1949 |