Allen Funt

Allen Funt

Allen Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5 1999) was an American producer-director, best known as the creator and host of "Candid Camera" from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular show or a series of specials. Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on CBS.

Life and career

Funt achieved a BA in Fine Arts from Cornell University in 1934 and studied business administration at Columbia University. He began the show on ABC radio in 1946 as "Candid Microphone" and soon experimented with a visual version by doing a series of theatrical short films also known as "Candid Microphone". These film shorts served as a springboard for his entrance into television. He wrote several books, beginning with "Eavesdropper at Large: Adventures in Human Nature with "Candid Mike" (Vanguard Press, 1952). He followed "Candid Kids" (Bernard Geis, 1964) with "Candidly, Allen Funt: A Million Smiles Later" (Barricade Books, 1994).

During the 1970s, he made two reality films based on the hidden camera theme: "What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?" (1970) and "Money Talks" (1972). Funt also produced a syndicated version of "Candid Camera" from 1974 to 1979; his co-hosts included, at various times, John Bartholomew Tucker and Jo Ann Pflug. In the 1980s, Funt produced a series of adult-oriented videos called "Candid Candid Camera".

He amassed a collection of works by the Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but was forced to sell them just before the painter's reputation revived and the prices of the paintings shot up.

Born in New York City, Funt lived for a short time in Westchester County, NY in Croton-on-Hudson. His White Gates estate was sold to opera singer Jessye Norman in the early 1990s. Following a stroke in 1993, he became incapacitated, and died in Pebble Beach, California in 1999. "Candid Camera" continued with his son, Peter Funt, as host.

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References

* "Alma-Tadema" (Catalogue of the Funt Collection) compiled by Russell Ash, Sotheby’s Belgravia, 1973
*cite news
last = Vallance
first = Tom
title = Obituary: Allen Funt
publisher = Independent, The (London)
date = 1999-09-08
url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990908/ai_n14248363

*cite web
title = Allen Funt 1914 - 1999
publisher = candidcamera.com
url = http://www.candidcamera.com/cc2/cc2e.html
accessdate = 2007-07-11

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