- Hal Gurnee
Hal Gurnee (born
January 25 ,1935 , in New York,New York , U.S.) is an American television director who directed all of the television shows hosted byDavid Letterman onNBC . Gurnee directed the Emmy award-winning but short-lived NBC daytime program "The David Letterman Show ", then moved with Letterman to "Late Night with David Letterman " in 1982. Gurnee himself would often be heard or appear on the show, when Letterman would call on him in the control room to facilitate a comedy segment. When introducing him, Letterman would deliberately stumble over and mispronounce his last name (e.g., "Hal Gurtner...Gurnter").When Letterman moved to CBS in 1993, Gurnee followed Letterman to direct the "
Late Show with David Letterman ," and remained its director and supervising producer from 1993 to 1995.Gurnee also directed "
The Tonight Show " during theJack Paar era, along with Paar's later Primetime show "The Jack Paar Program," and has directed episodes of "The Man Show ."See imdb name|0348668|Hal Gurnee
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.