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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 on...
Robert Cunniff is an Actor, Producer and Writer, living in northern NJ, and working primarily in the New York City and Philadelphia markets. Although he has been a lifelong storyteller, comedian, and entertainer, Robert came to the industry (at least professionally) later in life.
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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.
He won $4,750 on a TV quiz show in 1953, then lost his newspaper column in 1957 when he exposed the secrets of another TV quiz show. He wrote for Live From Lincoln Center and created Mousterpiece...
Mar 23, 2022 · Robert Cunniff. on. March 23, 2022. Image: 20th Century Fox. Big Trouble in Little China: A Perfect Storm of Happy Accidents and Good Decisions. “Adventure doesn’t come any bigger!” Big Trouble in Little China is a multi-genre Action/Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy film directed by John Carpenter that stars Kurt Russel, which was released on July 2, 1986.
Feb 5, 2008 · Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer Robert Cunniff died Jan. 20 in Brooklyn, N.Y., after a long illness. He was 81.
