Joe Connelly

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Joe Connelly (born August 22, 1917 in New York City , New York as Joseph Connelly , † February 13, 2003 in Newport Beach , California ) was an American screenwriter and television and film producer.

Life

Joe Connelly has worked with co-writer Bob Mosher on a variety of series including Amos and Andy , Meet Mr. McNutley , You Must Be Grown , Ichabod and Me , Bringing Up Buddy and The Munsters .

After joining the US Merchant Navy , Connelly joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York City . Here he met Bob Mosher . Mosher left the advertising agency in 1942 and moved to Hollywood to write for the Edgar Bergen and Charly McCarthy radio show. Connelly soon followed him. In the mid-1940s, after Connelly and Mosher wrote for Frank Morgan and Phil Harris radio shows , they both began writing for the popular Amos and Andy radio show for twelve years and later on developing it as a television show. Her first solo work for television was developing a short-lived anthology series for actor Ray Milland . An experience that taught both to focus on writing and not, as Connelly said, "things we already know".

At the Academy Awards in 1956 , Mosher and Connelly were nominated for the film Major Benson's Private War in the " Best Original Story" category. In the 1955 comedy The Private War of Major Benson , Charlton Heston plays a die-hard Army major who takes command of the ROTC program at an academy for children. This story was inspired by an experience Connellys when he drove his son to a church school.

In Growing Up , her dictum of writing about "things we know" was taken to a new level. Connelly, the father of seven children and Mosher, the father of two children, only had to be inspired by living in their own four walls. Connelly's 14-year-old son Jay served as a template for Beaver's older brother Wally, and Connelly's 8-year-old son Ricky was the inspiration for Beaver. Beaver was the nickname for a comrade from when Connelly was in the Merchant Navy. Connelly always followed his children with a piece of paper and wrote down all the funny situations that were later used on the show.

Connelly died of a stroke at the Motion Picture Country Home nursing home in Newport Beach , California . He had Alzheimer's disease for several years . Connelly is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City . He survived his two wives, Kathryn and Ann, and two of his seven children. Connelly had twelve grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Filmography (selection)

as a producer
as a screenwriter

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dennis McLellan: Joe Connelly, 85; Helped Create 'Leave It to Beaver' , Los Angeles Times . February 14, 2003. 
  2. ↑ a b Stephen Cox, Yvonne DeCarlo, Butch Patric: The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane . Back Stage Books, Hollywood 2006, ISBN 0823078949 .
  3. ^ Awards for Joe Connelly . IMDB . Retrieved August 1, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Connelly, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Connelly, Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2003
Place of death Newport Beach , California