Carmen Finestra

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Carmen Finestra (born June 26, 1947 in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania ) is an American film and television producer and actor .

Life

Finestra works with Matt Williams and David McFadzean at Wind Dancer Films . For Wind Dancer he has produced Where your heart beats , Hidden Fire , Soul Man , as well as individual episodes of Thunder Alley and Listen, who hammers there . Finestra also received two Emmy nominations for co- producing the Bill Cosby Show and another Emmy nomination for co-writing one of the episodes of the hit series. He also made three guest appearances on the Bill Cosby Show (episodes 4.17, 6.2 and 6.14).

Finestra graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and then worked at the Harrisburg Community Theater where he developed his creative talent. He then moved to New York and made a living as an actor and stand-up comedian . Broadway producer Joe Cates became aware of Finestras talent as a writer jokes and gave him a job as a clerk for a Johnny Cash - show .

Finestra was later hired by Steve Martin , also part of the Cash Show, to write shows for him. For this Finestra received two awards. After these stage shows, he became involved in comedy on television. In the fall of 1984 he was involved in the sitcom Punky Brewster . That brought him to the Bill Cosby Show as a writer after being called on by senior writer Eliot Shoenman . In the 1990s he wrote the television series Listen, Who's That Hammering , Soul Man and Thunder Alley .

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SURNAME Finestra, Carmen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Pennsylvania