Mama's Family
1983
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Dick Clair (November 12, 1931 – December 12, 1988) was an American television producer, actor and television and film writer, best known for the television sitcoms It's a Living, The Facts of Life, and Mama's Family.
Dick Clair was born on 12 November 1931 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Soap (1977), The Carol Burnett Show (1967) and Carol Burnett & Company (1979). He died on 12 December 1988.
Clair was a screenwriter for episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show in addition to his Emmy Award winning writing for the comedy-variety TV program The Carol Burnett Show. With Jenna McMahon he wrote and produced the television sitcoms It's a Living, The Facts of Life, and Mama's Family.
Jenna McMahon began her show-business career as one-half of a comedy duo that performed on all of the big talk shows of the 1960s and 1970s, but it was what she and her comedy partner Dick Clair did behind the scenes that made a more lasting impact, as their sketches and screenplays resulted in not one but two hit sitcoms of the 1980s, The ...
Dick Clair was an American television producer, actor and television and film writer, best known for the television sitcoms lieutenant"s a Living, The Facts of Life, and Mama"s Family.
In the case of Dick Clair, the fun began in 1973 when he joined the program as a writer. For his work on 73 episodes, the San Francisco native was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series five years in a row, winning three times.
Birthday: Nov 12, 1931. Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA. The long-running TV variety series "The Carol Burnett Show" has minted many a stellar Hollywood career. In the case of Dick...
