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Feb 12, 2008 · Robert Cunniff, an Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer, died Jan. 20 in Brooklyn after a long illness. He was 81. Cunniff was a longtime Village resident, living first...
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Robert Cunniff (1927-2008) was a producer of Sesame Street during seasons 4 and 5.
Cunniff worked for The Today Show in the mid-1960s, with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, and with Dick Cavett on The Dick Cavett Show and later Cavett broadcasts in the 1980s and 1990s. He is well known for booking the combative Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal on the same show, with the elderly, mild-mannered New Yorker writer Janet Flanner as referee between the two.
After Cavett's first show, he moved to the Children's Television Workshop, where he was a producer of Sesame Street from 1972 to 1974. He wrote numerous sketches, and shared an Emmy Award ("Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Entertainment/Fictional") with executive producer Jon Stone. Skits he was directly involved in include "Morty Moot Mope" and "The Ballad of Casey McPhee"
The following year, he became the managing editor of Good Morning, America.
Among his other credits were the creation of the Disney Channel's Mousterpiece Theater, and writing for TV Guide. His pioneering behind the scenes segments on The Dick Cavett Show inspired a 1970 cartoon in The New Yorker, without words, a rare inclusion.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Cunniff died on January 20, 2008 in Brooklyn, New York City after a long illness.
•Associated Press, "Writer/producer Robert Cunniff dies", Variety, February 5, 2008.
•ROBERT CUNNIFF: GREAT, "GREY EMINENCE" OF TALK TELEVISION, obituary on his daughter's blog.
Nov 14, 2023 · Surrounded by family, Robert Joseph (Bob) Cunniff passed away on November 14, 2023 at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers after a long battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Bob was 85.
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Jan 31, 2008 · Robert Cunniff, 81, a television writer and producer who shared an Emmy Award in the early 1970s as a producer of "Sesame Street," died Jan. 20 at a nursing facility in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...
Robert Cunniff was born on 13 September 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Mouseterpiece Theater (1984), Sesame Street (1969) and Today (1952). He died on 20 January 2008 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
Cunniff won an Emmy as a writer and producer of Sesame Street from 1972 to 1975, but that’s just the beginning of what he accomplished on the New York television scene.
