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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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Make Room for Daddy

Known For

  • All in the Family
  • The Last of the Secret Agents?
  • Archie Bunker's Place

Filmography

1981
Love, Sidney (TV Series)
1980
Sanford (TV Series)
1979
1973
1971
1971
All in the Family (TV Series)
1968
The Good Guys (TV Series)
1966
Run, Buddy, Run (TV Series)
1966
1964
1962
1961
Margie (TV Series)
1957
Bachelor Father (TV Series)
1954
1953
1950
Your Show of Shows (TV Series)
1949

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