Ben Starr, the Glossary
Benjamin Starr (October 18, 1921 – January 19, 2014) was an American television producer, creator, writer and playwright.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, Al Jolson, All in the Family, Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, Carl Reiner, Catchphrase, Chico and the Man, Christopher Knight (actor), City College of New York, Climax!, Deadline Hollywood, Dean Martin, Diff'rent Strokes, Distinguished Flying Cross (United States), Gary Coleman, George Burns, Humphrey Bogart, Impersonator, Jerry Lewis, List of James Bond parodies and spin-offs, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Manhattan, Maude (TV series), Mister Ed, New York City, Oliver Twist (1974 film), Our Man Flint, Penske Media Corporation, Petticoat Junction, Russia, Satire, Screenplay, Sid Caesar, Silver Spoons, Sitcom, Texas Across the River, The Andy Griffith Show, The Brady Bunch, The Facts of Life (TV series), The Family Way, The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Treasure Island (1973 film), University of California, Los Angeles, Variety (magazine), Western (genre).
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation is the charitable arm of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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Al Jolson
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson,; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian.
All in the Family
All in the Family is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned seven decades. Ben Starr and carl Reiner are Jewish American screenwriters, screenwriters from New York (state) and television producers from New York City.
Catchphrase
A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.
Chico and the Man
Chico and the Man is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978.
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Christopher Knight (actor)
Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957).
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.
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Climax!
Climax! (later known as Climax Mystery Theater) is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958.
Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian.
Diff'rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom, which aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986.
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Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces.
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Gary Coleman
Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor, known as a high profile child star of the late 1970s and 1980s.
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George Burns
George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television.
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor.
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Impersonator
An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another.
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian and entertainer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" throughout the United States. Ben Starr and Jerry Lewis are Jewish American screenwriters.
List of James Bond parodies and spin-offs
The James Bond series of novels and films has been parodied and referenced many times in a number of different media, including books, comics, films, television shows, and video games.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Maude (TV series)
Maude is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972, until April 22, 1978.
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Mister Ed
Mister Ed is an American television sitcom produced by Filmways that aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961, to February 6, 1966.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Oliver Twist (1974 film)
Oliver Twist is a 1974 American animated adventure musical drama film directed by Hal Sutherland that is based on Charles Dickens's 1838 novel of the same name.
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Our Man Flint
Our Man Flint is a 1966 American spy-fi comedy film that parodies the ''James Bond'' film series.
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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Petticoat Junction
Petticoat Junction is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters.
Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American actor, comedian and writer.
Silver Spoons
Silver Spoons is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982, to May 11, 1986, and in first-run syndication from September 27, 1986, to May 30, 1987.
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Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
Texas Across the River
Texas Across The River is a 1966 American Techniscope comedy western film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth and Joey Bishop.
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The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom television series that was aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color.
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The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC.
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The Facts of Life (TV series)
The Facts of Life is an American television sitcom created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon and a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes that originally aired on NBC from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the 1980s.
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The Family Way
The Family Way is a 1966 British comedy-drama film produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting, respectively, and starring father and daughter John Mills and Hayley Mills.
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The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (formerly titled the Archive of American Television) is a project of the nonprofit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, that records interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (also known as simply Dobie Gillis or Max Shulman's Dobie Gillis in later seasons and in syndication) is an American sitcom starring Dwayne Hickman that aired on CBS from September 29, 1959, to June 5, 1963.
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Treasure Island (1973 film)
Treasure Island is a 1973 American animated adventure film directed by Hal Sutherland, produced by Filmation, and released by Warner Bros. In this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name, Jim Hawkins (voiced by Davy Jones) travels with sidekick Hiccup the Pirate Mouse.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Starr
Also known as Ben Starr (American producer).