Joe Connelly (producer)
Joe Connelly ( born August 22, 1917 in New York City, New York, † February 13, 2003 in Newport Beach, California ) was an American screenwriter and television and film producer.
Life
Together with co-author Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly worked on a variety of shows such as Amos and Andy, Meet Mr. McNutley, growing up would have to be you, Ichabod and Me, Bringing Up Buddy and The Munsters.
After Connelly had entered the U.S. Merchant Marine, he joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York City. Here he met Bob Mosher. Mosher left the Agency in 1942 and moved to Hollywood to write for the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy radio show. Connelly followed him soon after. Mid-1940s, after Connelly and Mosher had written for the radio shows of Frank Morgan and Phil Harris, both began twelve years for the popular radio show Amos and Andy and later write their further development as a television show. Her first solo work for television was to develop a short-lived anthology series for the actor Ray Milland. An experience that both taught to focus on writing and not, as it said Connelly, on " things we already know ."
At the Academy Awards in 1956 Mosher and Connelly were for the film The Private War of Major Benson in the category "Best Original Story " nominated. In the comedy The Private War of Major Benson from 1955 Charlton Heston plays a hard-nosed Army Major, about the ROTC program at an academy for children, takes command. Inspired by this story was an experience Connelly, as he drove his son to a church school.
In his adulthood would have been her dictum of writing about " things we know " brought to a new level. Connelly, the father of seven children and Mosher, the father of two children, had to be inspired just by living in their own homes. Connelly's 14 - year-old son Jay was used as a template for Beavers older brother Wally and Connelly's 8- year-old son Ricky was the inspiration for Beaver. Beaver was the nickname for a comrade from the time when Connelly was in the merchant marine. Connelly has always followed his children with a piece of paper and wrote down all the funny situations, which then later found in the show use.
Connelly died of a stroke in a nursing home Motion Picture Country Home in Newport Beach, California. He suffered for several years from Alzheimer 's disease. Connelly is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. His two wives, Kathryn and Ann, and two of his seven children he survived. Connelly had twelve grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.