Sheldon Leonard
Sheldon Leonard ( born February 22, 1907 in New York City; † January 10, 1997 in Beverly Hills ) was an American film and television producer, director, screenwriter and actor.
Life
Leonard Sheldon Leonard Bershad was as in New York City, the son of Jewish married couple Anna and Frank Bershad geboren.Sheldon Leonard Bershad made in 1929 graduated from Syracuse University
As an actor, Leonard specialized in supporting roles, especially on Gangster or felons and entered as Is not life beautiful in movies? (1946 ), To Have and Have Not (1944 ) and Open Secret ( 1948) on. Its hallmark was his strong New York accent, he was out of the corner of his mouth by himself. In the cult classic film Decoy be Leonard uses his felon personality to embody the hard-nosed police detective Joe Portugal. In the 1950s, Leonard dubbed the lazy cat Dodsworth in two Warner Bros. cartoons that were produced under the direction of Robert McKimson.
On the radio, Leonard played in the later 1940s and the early 1950s, the eccentric racetrack tout The tractor in the show The Jack Benny Program. His role was to Benny out of the blue ( Come "Hey Bud, come here a minute" ( Hello Bud) for a moment ago) to railway station, street corners, or in department stores to greet, and Benny to ask what he meant, and then to dissuade him by crazy and irrelevant racetrack logic apply an end. Ironically, he was in his role as The Tout never out information about horse racing when Jack Benny not explicitly demanded this. One of the excuses that The Tout was pretending, " Who knows about horses? " ( "Who knows about horses know? "). Leonard was also part of the ensemble 's radio show Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. He also appeared often in the English radio play series The Adventures of the Saint (Simon Templar ), in which he, but sometimes played gangsters and felons and positive roles.
Leonard is known as a producer of television series such as Danny Thomas Show (aka Make Room For Daddy ) ( 1953-1964 ), Andy Griffith Show ( 1960-1968 ), The Dick Van Dyke Show ( 1961-1966 ) and I Spy ( 1965-1968 ). Leonard synchronized Linus the Lionhearted in a series of Post Crispy Critters cereal TV commercials in 1963 and 1964, which led to a Linus cartoon television series that Saturday and late Sunday morning on CBS ( 1964-66 ) and ABC ( 1967-69 ) was broadcast. He was also briefly star of his own television show Big Eddie, in which he played the owner of a large sports stadium. The show ran for only one season from 1975 until 1976.
The character of Andy Taylor from the Andy Griffith Show was introduced in an episode of the Danny Thomas Show in 1960, which led to the TV series of the Andy Griffith Show. Leonard is therefore unofficially as the inventor of the practice of using a backdoor pilot episode for a new television series, in which the guest star is introduced as a new character to use this figure as a basis for the new television series.
Leonard was the first Miller Lite Spokesman with writer Mickey Spillane. By using his his typical New York accent, he turns to the audience: "I was at first reluctant to try Miller Lite, but then I was Persuaded to do so by my friend, Large Louis. " ( I first bucked me to try Milly Lite, but then I was by my friend Large Louis convinced ). A his last roles was a guest appearance in an episode of the television series Cheers in 1990, in which he played the owner of "The Hungry Heifer, " Norm Peterson's favorite restaurant.
Leonard died at 89 years, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Bill Cosby used an embodiment of Sheldon Leonard for a title of his comedy album wonderfulness from the year 1966. The title " Niagara Falls", Sheldon Leonard describes honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Sheldon Leonard's name inspierierte the authors of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory to the names for the characters Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, because they are fans of his work.
Filmography (selection)
Producer
Director
- Andy Griffith Show
- Danny Thomas Show
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- My Favorite Martian
- I Spy