Carmen Finestra

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

Life and career

Finestra works with Matt Williams and David McFadzean in Wind Dancer film together. For Wind Dancer, he has Where the Heart Is, Firelight, Soul Man, Thunder Alley and Listen, Home Improvement produced. Finestra also received two nominations for an Emmy Award as one of the producers of The Cosby Show and another Emmy nomination as co-writer of one of the episodes of the successful series. He also had three guest appearances on the Cosby Show ( episodes 4.17 6.2 and 6.14).

Finestra completed in 1969 to study at the University of Pennsylvania and worked at the Harrisburg Community Theatre where he developed his creative talent. He then moved to New York and earned his living as an actor and stand-up comedian. Broadway Producer Joe Cates was on Finestras talent attention as jokes writer and gave him a job as a clerk for a Johnny Cash show. Later Finestra was Steve Martin, also part of the cash -show hired to write for him shows. For Finestra got two awards. After this stage shows its commitment to comedy followed on television. In the fall of 1984, he was involved in the sitcom Punky Brewster. This brought him as a writer for Bill Cosby Show, after he was the senior author, Eliot Shoenman, called. In the 1990s he wrote the television series Look, Home Improvement, Soul Man and Thunder Alley.