1913
Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)
Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)
Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)
Mel Tolkin
American comedy writer (1913–2007)
- Born
- 1913
Mel Tolkin was an American television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Danny Simon. The writers' room inspired the film My Favorite Year (1982), produced by Brooks, and the Broadway play Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993), written by Neil Simon.