Mort Lachman

Mort Lachman was born on Mar 20, 1918 in USA. Mort Lachman's big-screen debut came with Call Me Bwana directed by Gordon Douglas in 1963. Mort Lachman is known for Yours, Mine and Ours directed by Melville Shavelson, Lucille Ball stars as Helen North Beardsley and Henry Fonda as Frank Beardsley. Mort Lachman has got 2 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Mort Lachman achieved is Primetime Emmy Awards. The upcoming new movie Mort Lachman plays is Yours, Mine & Ours which will be released on Nov 23, 2005.

Born in Seattle, Washington (not, as many believed, in New York City), comedy writer Mort Lachman graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in journalism in the 1930s. After serving in the US Army during World War II, he got a job as a gag writer for comedian Eddie Cantor. In 1947 he went to work for comic Bob Hope as a gag writer for his radio show. He stayed with Hope, on and off, for more than 20 years, as a gag writer and producer of Hope's TV specials. He also wrote and directed episodes for several sitcoms, including Sanford and Son (1972), The Red Skelton Show (1951) and That's My Mama (1974), and wrote, produced and directed episodes of All in the Family (1971), for which he won an Emmy Award in 1971. He died in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack on March 18, 2009.