Cy Howard (September 27, 1915 - April 29, 1993) was an American director, producer and screenwriter. Howard created My Friend Irma a top-rated, long-running radio situation comedy and media franchise.[1] He won a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for the television program The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.[4]
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Born | Seymour Horowitz[1] September 27, 1915 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Died | April 29, 1993 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 77)
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison[1] University of Minnesota[2] |
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Howard was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Washington High School.[5]
Howrd worked at CBS for nine years, leaving in 1953 after he was unable to reach a contract agreement with that network. CBS had agreed to pay him more than $1 million "over a term of years", but it demanded exclusive rights to his work.[6]
Howard died in April 1993 of heart failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 77.[1][7]