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Hugh Thomas Wedlock Jr. (February 15, 1908 - December 13, 1993) was an American screenwriter. He worked with Howard Snyder writing for Jack Benny's radio and television program The Jack Benny Program; he also wrote for The Red Skelton Show and The Gisele MacKenzie Show.
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- December 13, 1993 (aged 85), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Hugh Thomas Wedlock Jr., February 15, 1908, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Hugh Wedlock Jr. was born on 15 February 1908 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967), The Red Skelton Hour (1951) and Shower of Stars (1954). He died on 13 December 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- February 15, 1908
- Hugh Wedlock Jr.
- December 13, 1993
Dec 18, 1993 · Hugh Wedlock Jr., 85, comedy writer for film, radio and television who provided gags for Jack Benny and Eddie Cantor. Wedlock wrote for the big screen in the 1940s, including such movies as...
Hugh Thomas Wedlock Jr. was an American screenwriter. He worked with Howard Snyder writing for Jack Benny's radio and television program The Jack Benny Program; he also wrote for The Red Skelton Show and The Gisele MacKenzie Show. Wedlock died in December 1993 of heart failure in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 85.
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Hugh Wedlock Jr., co-wrote the episode of Good Times titled "The Comedian and the Loan Sharks" with Jack Matcha.
A veteran comedy writer for film, radio and television, Hugh provided gags for Jack Benny and Eddie Cantor. Wedlock wrote for the big screen in the 1940s, including such movies as The Good Fellows in 1943, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff in 1949, and the story for Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man in 1951. In addition to writing for Benny and Cantor, Wedlock also wrote television scripts for Jack Oakie and Edgar Bergen and for such 1950's TV shows The Frank Sinatra Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, McHale's Navy, and the highly popular 1968-73 NBC-TV comedy series Laugh-In.
Wedlock died in Los Angeles of heart failure.
1.Hugh Wedlock Jr.; Comedy Writer for Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, Los Angeles Times article, December 18, 1993, accessed 12/17/2004 at latimes.com
•Hugh Wedlock, Jr. at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Dec 31, 1950 11:00pm PT. Abbott and Costello … Meet the Invisible Man. Team's stock double-takes and bewhiskered gags are still fulsome, but the hackneyed quips achieve a new gloss in this entry....
