Cy Howard

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Cy Howard , born in Seymour Horowitz (born September 27, 1915 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States , † April 29, 1993 in Los Angeles , California , United States), was an American screenwriter, television director and film and television producer.

Live and act

Horowitz studied economics at the universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin, where he had also revealed his talent as a tennis player. Horowitz took his first steps in showbiz at the Houston, Texas-based radio station KTRH. Here he worked successively as an author, actor and producer. After his one year service with the Army Air Corps, Horowitz went to the WBBM broadcaster in Chicago in 1942, where he was active in the same functions as before in Houston. Now trading as Cy Howard, he then joined the troupe that wrote the radio comedy programs for Jack Benny in 1943 . Another year later, in January 1944, Howard was briefly seen at the Belasco Theater on New York's Broadway, where he played a small role in 23 performances of the stage drama Storm Operation .

This was followed by commitments to the radio and television stations ABC and NBC, where Howard joined the comedy writing team who wrote the lyrics for established comedians like Milton Berle , Danny Thomas , Bert Lahr and the very young Jerry Lewis ( My Friend Irma , 1947). As a result, film and television quickly became aware of the talented writer. For the new comedian duo Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin supervised by producer Hal B. Wallis , he worked, beginning in 1949 with the theatrical version of My Friend Irma , in their early cinema comedies both as a writer and as a production manager; with My Friend Irma one went in 1952 (television) series. Here as well as later, Howard appeared primarily as a "creator" (creator) of television programs, as an author he only created individual episodes of various series and also worked there as an executive producer. Only very rarely, especially in the first half of the 1970s, did Cy Howard take part in movies - sometimes as a screenwriter, sometimes as a director.

Private

Cy Howard was married a total of three times, his second wife (1954-1957) was the actress Gloria Grahame .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: My Friend Irma (screenplay, production manager)
  • 1950: Irma in the golden west ( My Friend Irma Goes West ) (screenplay, production manager)
  • 1951: That's My Boy (screenplay, production management)
  • 1960: Guestward Ho! (TV series, line producer)
  • 1962–1963: Fair Exchange (TV series, line producer)
  • 1963: Mickey and the Contessa (production, screenplay)
  • 1965: Three Times to Mexico ( Marriage on the Rocks ) (screenplay)
  • 1969: Lovers and Other Strangers (Director)
  • 1972: Every Little Crook and Nanny (Director, Co-script)
  • 1974: It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (Director)
  • 1975: Won Ton Ton ( Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood ) (co-script)

literature

  • International Television Almanac 1985, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1985, p. 125
  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1991, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1991, pp. 142 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Storm Operation in the Internet Broadway Database

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Howard, Cy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horowitz, Seymour (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film director and production manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1993
Place of death Los Angeles , United States