- Herb Sargent
Herbert Sargent (
July 15 ,1923 -May 6 ,2005 ) was anEmmy Award -winning Americantelevision writer, a producer for suchcomedy shows as "The Tonight Show " and "Saturday Night Live ", and ascreenwriter ("Bye Bye Braverman ").Born in
Philadelphia , Sargent was the older brother of Academy Award-winning screenwriterAlvin Sargent . Raised inUpper Darby, Pennsylvania , he studied architecture atPenn State University before serving with theUnited States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command in the Pacific Theater duringWorld War II . He moved toLos Angeles and graduated fromUCLA .Sargent then moved to
New York City and began his career inradio . He later helped develop television specials forPetula Clark ,Perry Como ,Bing Crosby , Alan King,Milton Berle ,Sammy Davis Jr. ,Lily Tomlin ,Paul McCartney ,Anne Bancroft , andBurt Bacharach .Sargent won six
Emmy Award s and sixWriters Guild of America Award s. He was also President of theWriters Guild of America, East until his death from aheart attack following surgery.External links
* [http://www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/ny-bc-ny--obit-sargent0506may06,0,6579114.story?coll=nyc-enthome-headlines "Newsday" obituary]
* [http://www.wgaeast.org/features/2005/05/06/sargent_obit/ WGA obituary]
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