Biography
Mel Tolkin (né Shmuel Tolchinsky; August 3, 1913 – November 26, 2007) 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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Filmography
all 17
Writer 12
TV Shows 9
Movies 8
self 4
Producer 1
Self
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years (2012)
Movie
Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy (2000)
Movie
Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room (2000)
Movie
Self
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)
Movie
Producer / Writer
Love, Sidney (1981)
TV
Writer
Sanford (1980)
TV
Writer
Joe's World (1979)
TV
Writer
Archie Bunker's Place (1979)
TV
Writer
Ten from Your Show of Shows (1973)
Movie
Writer
All in the Family (1971)
TV
6.8
Writer
Roberta (1969)
Movie
Writer
The Good Guys (1968)
TV
Writer
The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
Movie
Writer
Danny Kaye Christmas Show (1963)
Movie
Writer
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962)
TV
Writer
Bachelor Father (1957)
TV
Writer
Producers' Showcase (1954)
TV
Ratings
Average 5.21
Based on 22.6 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1954
1968
1979
1980
2012
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Information
Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1913-08-03
Deathday2007-11-26 (94 years old)
SiblingsSol Tolchinsky
AwardsWriters Guild of America Award, Emmy Award
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