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Gardner is best known for his 1962 play A Thousand Clowns, which ran for 428 performances. He received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay for the successful 1965 movie adaptation. The play was revived in 1996 and 2001. Both the 1962 play and the movie starred Jason Robards, Jr. as Murray Burns, a charming, unemployed children's show writer ...
Sep 26, 2003 · Herb Gardner, whose 1962 play ''A Thousand Clowns'' was the first of a string of Broadway successes in which his eccentric characters conveyed the whimsical charm and dark truths that grew out of ...
Herb Gardner. Writer: A Thousand Clowns. Herb Gardner was born on 28 December 1934 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for A Thousand Clowns (1965), The Goodbye People (1984) and I'm Not Rappaport (1996). He was married to Rita Gardner and Barbara C. Sproul. He died on 23 September 2003 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- December 28, 1934
- September 23, 2003
Herb Gardner, the Broadway dramatist who wrote few plays but had many productions, died Sept. 24, his agent Robert Lantz confirmed. He was 68 and had been in poor health for some time.
Herb Gardner, an award-winning playwright best known for his Broadway hits “A Thousand Clowns,” “I’m Not Rappaport” and “Conversations With My Father,” has died. He was 68. Gardner ...
Sep 24, 2003 · Herbert George Gardner (December 28, 1934 – September 24, 2003) was an American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.
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Sep 25, 2003 · Herb Gardner was born in Brooklyn in 1934, and attended the High School of the Performing Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology (which later became Carnegie-Mellon University) and Antioch College.
