Earl Pomerantz
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Born | (1945-02-04)February 4, 1945 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Died | March 7, 2020(2020-03-07) (aged 75) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Nationality | Canadian/American |
Occupation(s) | Producer, screenwriter |
Years active | 1970–2020 |
Earl Pomerantz (February 4, 1945 – March 7, 2020) was a Canadian-born screenwriter, who spent almost the entirety of his career working in U.S. television comedy.[1]
Career
Pomerantz wrote a weekly column for the Toronto Telegram in the late 1960s. He broke into writing TV comedy while living in Toronto, getting a position as a writer on 1970's The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour, which starred his brother Hart Pomerantz and Lorne Michaels.
Pomerantz moved to Hollywood in 1974, where he found work writing in sitcoms, writing scripts for such shows as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and Taxi. By the 1980s, Pomerantz was developing and creating network television series, such as Major Dad, Family Man and Best of the West, and he continued to write scripts for Cheers, Newhart, and The Cosby Show. He won two Primetime Emmy Awards,[2] a Writers Guild of America Award, the Humanitas Prize and a CableACE Award.[3]
In the 2000s, he delivered several commentaries on NPR’s All Things Considered.[4]
References
- ^ "Earl Pomerantz, 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Cheers' writer, dead at 75". Fox News. 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Primetime Emmy Awards and Nominations for Earl Pomerantz". Primetime Emmy® Award Database. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
- ^ Awards for Earl Pomerantz, IMDb
- ^ "Earl Pomerantz profile". The Huffington Post. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
External links
- Earl Pomerantz at IMDb
- Earl Pomerantz discography at Discogs
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- Bob Ellison and Marty Farrell (1971)
- Anne Howard Bailey (1972)
- Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor (1973)
- Rosalyn Drexler, Ann Elder, Karyl Geld Miller, Robert Illes, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Jim Rusk, Herb Sargent, James R. Stein, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, and George Yanok (1974)
- John Bradford, Cy Coleman, and Robert Wells (1975)
- Ann Elder, Christopher Guest, Lorne Michaels, Earl Pomerantz, Jim Rusk, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, and George Yanok (1976)
- Buz Kohan and Ted Strauss (1977)
- Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Charles Grodin, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, and Alan Zweibel (1978)
- Chris Rock (2009)
- Dave Boone and Paul Greenberg (2010)
- Dave Boone, Matt Roberts, and Mo Rocca (2011)
- Louis C.K. (2012)
- Louis C.K. (2013)
- Sarah Silverman (2014)
- Louis C.K. (2015)
- Patton Oswalt (2016)
- Samantha Bee, Ashley Nicole Black, Pat Cassels, Eric Drysdale, Mathan Erhardt, Travon Free, Joe Grossman, Miles Kahn, Jo Miller, and Melinda Taub (2017)
- John Mulaney (2018)
- Hannah Gadsby (2019)
- Dave Chappelle (2020)
- Bo Burnham (2021)
- Jerrod Carmichael (2022)
- John Mulaney (2023)
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