From cardiac arrest as a complication of heart failure
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Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear was an American screenwriter and producer who wrote and produced more than 100 television shows during a career that lasted over 70 years. Lear created and produced numerous popular 1970s sitcoms, including All in the Family (1971–1979), Maude (1972–1978), Sanford and Son (1972–1977), One Day at a Time (1975–1984), The Jeffersons (1975–1985), and Good Times (1974–1979). His work…
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Born 27 July 1922 · Died 5 December 2023 · Q1270283
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2023· 3 entries
Died 2023-12-05.
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Was overseeing multiple shows in development, including a planned reboot of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
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2020· 1 entry
It was announced that Lear and Act III Productions would executive produce a revival of Who's the Boss
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2019· 1 entry
It was announced that Lear had teamed with Lin-Manuel Miranda to make an American Masters documentary about Moreno's life, tentatively titled Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
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2018· 1 entry
Lear's alma mater, Emerson College, unveiled a bronze statue of him on campus
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2017· 4 entries
Published video “NL All of the Above Trailer”.
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Published video “Too Much Tuna Norman Lear - Oh Hello on Broadway”.
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Was awarded the fourth annual Woody Guthrie Prize presented by the Woody Guthrie Center, recognizing an artist whose work represents the spirit of Woody Guthrie "as a positive force for social change"
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Served as executive producer for One Day at a Time, the reboot of his 1975–1984 show of the same name that premiered on Netflix starring Justina Machado and Rita Moreno as a Cuban-American family
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2016· 1 entry
Published video “The Moth - Naughty or Nice”.
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2015· 1 entry
Lear was one of 98 "prominent members of Los Angeles' Jewish community" who signed an open letter supporting the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers led by the United States
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2014· 8 entries
Published video “Readings from The Book of Norman, Episode 10”.
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Published video “Readings from The Book of Norman, Episode 9”.
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Published video “Readings from The Book of Norman, Episode 8”.
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Published video “Readings from The Book of Norman, Episode 7”.
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Published video “Video Montage from Norman Lear's 80th Birthday”.
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Published video “Readings from The Book of Norman, Episode 6”.
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Published video “Readings from The Book of Norman, Episode 5”.
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Lear published Even This I Get to Experience, a memoir
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Marian Anderson Award (2008).
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2004· 1 entry
Lear established Declare Yourself, which is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign created to empower and encourage eligible 18- to 29-year-olds in America to register and vote
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2003· 1 entry
Lear appeared on South Park during the "I'm a Little Bit Country" episode, providing the voice of Benjamin Franklin
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2001· 1 entry
Lear and his wife, Lyn, purchased a Dunlap broadside—one of the first published copies of the United States Declaration of Independence—for $8
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2000· 1 entry
Provided an endowment for a multidisciplinary research and public policy center, the Norman Lear Center, that explored the convergence of entertainment, commerce, and society at the USC Annenberg School for Communicat
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Lucy Award (1999).
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President Bill Clinton awarded Lear the National Medal of Arts, noting: "Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it
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The Kennedy Center Honors in 2017, and the Golden Globe Carol Burnett Award in 2021
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1997· 1 entry
Lear and Jim George produced the Kids' WB series Channel Umptee-3
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1992· 2 entries
That he was reducing his political activism
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Act III was sued by Platt Amusement, which claimed that the company had in 1990 “induced and persuaded” GE Capital Corporate Finance to deny them a loan, which gotten approved financing, and then created a theater monopo
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1990· 1 entry
By which time Act III and Brown published and edited Television Business International (TBI)
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1989· 2 entries
Norman Lear's Act III Communications formed a joint venture with Columbia Pictures Television called Act III Television to produce television series instead of managing
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Lear founded the Business Enterprise Trust, an educational program that used annual awards, business school case studies, and videos to spotlight exemplary social innovations in American business until it ended in 1998
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1987· 1 entry
Lear married Lyn Davis, who survived him
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1986· 2 entries
With the cancellation of Diff'rent Strokes, and Embassy ceased to exist as a single entity in late 1986, having been split into different components owned by different entities
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That he and Simmons were the main writers for The Martin and Lewis Show for three years
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1985· 1 entry
Lear and Perenchio sold Embassy Communications to Columbia Pictures (then owned by The Coca-Cola Company), which acquired Embassy's film and television division (including Embassy's in-house television productions and th
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1984· 1 entry
Lyn was reportedly in the process of earning a doctorate in clinical psychology
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1982· 1 entry
Clinton was in fact seeking to win back his previous post as Governor of Arkansas that year
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1981· 2 entries
The position of honorary chair of People for the American Way after meeting him for the first time in 1982, with Clinton declining Lear's offer but still "had a great time together and remained friends;" despite Lear's c
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Lear founded People for the American Way (PFAW), a progressive advocacy organization formed in reaction to the politics of the Christian right
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1980· 3 entries
Lear founded the organization People for the American Way for the purpose of counteracting the Christian right group Moral Majority which had been founded in 1979
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Founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way to counter the influence of the Christian right in politics
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When he supported John Anderson over Jimmy Carter because he considered the Carter administration to be "a complete disaster"
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1977· 2 entries
To offer three hours of prime-time Saturday programming directly having stations place his production company in the position of an occasional network
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African-American screenwriter Eric Monte filed a lawsuit accusing ABC and CBS producers Norman Lear, Bud Yorkin, and others of stealing his ideas for Good Times, The Jeffersons, and What's Happening
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1975· 1 entry
Formed the Energy Action Committee to oppose Big Oil's powerful lobby in Washington
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1974· 1 entry
Which co-existed with Tandem Productions and was often referred to in periodicals as Tandem/T
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for All in the Family (1973).
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That Lear's home in Fire Island, New York was in fact the place where Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks initially performed their 2000 Year Old Man routines
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1971· 3 entries
To disappointing ratings, but it took home several Emmy Awards that year, including Outstanding Comedy Series
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Released album “All in the Family”.
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All in the Family openly discussed current social and political topics and became the country's most popular show for five straight years
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1959· 1 entry
Lear created his first television series, a half-hour western for Revue Studios called The Deputy, starring Henry Fonda
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1954· 1 entry
Lear was enlisted as a writer and asked to salvage the new CBS sitcom starring Celeste Holm, Honestly, Celeste
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1940· 1 entry
And attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to enlist in the US Army Air Forces
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1922· 2 entries
In New Haven, Connecticut, to Jeanette (née Seicol) and Hyman "Herman" Lear, a traveling salesman
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Born 1922-07-27.
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