Larry Gelbart biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Larry Gelbart

Author Name:

Larry Gelbart

Born As:

Larry Simon Gelbart

Other Names:

Francis Burns, Elsig.

Born:

25 Feb 1928

Died:

11 Sep 2009




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Television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author                          
Selected Works:

Duffy's Tavern - 1941–1951 - Radio
The Red Buttons Show - 1952 - TV
Honestly, Celeste! - 1954 - TV
Caesar's Hour - 1954–1957 - TV
The Patrice Munsel Show - 1957 - TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show - 1958 - TV
The Art Carney Show - 1959 - TV
Startime - 1959 - TV
The Best of Anything - 1960 - TV
Hooray for Love - 1960 - TV
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - with Burt Shevelove - 1962 - Theater
The Notorious Landlady - with Blake Edwards - 1962
Judy and her guests, Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet - 1963 - TV
The Thrill of It All - 1963 - story only
The Danny Kaye Show - 1963 - TV
The Wrong Box - with Burt Shevelove - 1966
Not with My Wife, You Don't! - with Norman Panama and Peter Barnes - 1966
A Fine Pair - 1967 - uncredited
Eddie - 1971 - TV
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine - 1971 - TV
Roll Out - 1972 - TV
M*A*S*H - 1972–1983 - TV - also Co-Creator
If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? - 1974 - TV
Karen - 1975 - TV
Sly Fox - 1976 - Theater
Three's Company - 1976 - TV - unaired pilot
Oh God! - 1977
Movie, Movie - 1978
United States - 1980 - TV
Rough Cut - 1980 - as Francis Burns
Neighbors - 1981
Tootsie - with Murray Schisgal - 1982
AfterMASH - 1983–1984 - TV - also Creator
Blame it on Rio - 1984
City of Angels - 1989 - Theater
Master Gate - 1990 - Theater
Barbarians at the Gate - 1993 - TV
Weapons of Mass Distraction - 1997 - TV
Laughing Matters: On writing M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Oh, God! And A Few Other Funny Things - 1999 - Autobiography
C-Scam - 2000 - TV
Bedazzled - with Harold Ramis and Peter Tolan - 2000
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself - 2003 - TV.
                          
Mother Frieda Sturner
Father  Harry Gelbart
Wife Patricia Marshall                          
Contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, and a regular participant on the alt.tv.mash Usenet newsgroup as "Elsig".                          
Gelbart began as a writer at the age of sixteen for Danny Thomas' radio show after his father, who was Thomas' barber, showed Thomas some jokes Gelbart had written