Norman Lear is an American screenwriter. He was born on July 27, 1922. He was born in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, in United States Of America. His father's name was Herman Lear. His mother's name was Jeanette Seicol. He produced several television sitcoms. His father was a salesman who traveled a lot for work. His mother was born in Ukraine. His paternal grandparents were born in Russia. In 1931, when Norman was nine years old, his father was arrested for selling fake bonds. Norman attended Weaver High School(WHS) in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from the school in 1940 at the age of 18. Norman enrolled in Emerson College after graduating from Weaver High School. He left college to join the Air Force. He has had the honor to have served in the United States Army Air Forces for three years. He married Charlotte Lear in 1943. His first child, Ellen Lear, was born in 1947. She is a sex therapist. He married Frances Lear in 1956.
The married lasted for thirty years. Frances died due to breast cancer in 1986. Frances and Norman separated in 1983. They divorced in 1986. Norman's second child, Kate Breckir LaPook, is an executive. She was born in 1958. His third child, born a year later in 1959, is Maggie Beth Lear. Norman married Lyn Davis Lear in 1987. They are still together. Lyn Lear is a psychologist. His first child from the third marriage is male. His name is Benjamin Davis Lear. He was born in 1988. Norman also has a pair of twins born to a surrogate. Their names are Madelaine Rose Lear and Brianna Elizabeth Lear. They were born in 1994. After serving in the second world war, Norman worked in public relations(PR). After his noteworthy sitcom All In The Family turned into an Emmy-victor and a runaway hit in 1971, he lined it up with a string of social dramatizations that re-imagined TV parody.
After a promising start in the '50s composition for theatrical presentations, Lear co-propelled a generation organization and created and scripted a handful of '60s films, guiding one—Cold Turkey, featuring Dick Van Dyke—himself in 1971. After a few false begins in the late '60s, Lear's freely personal TV arrangement All In The Family additionally propelled in 1971, quickly sputtering before reviving to end up distinctly TV's main appraisals hit. Lear tailed it with the turn offs Maude and The Jeffersons, all the while delivering indicates like Good Times, Sanford And Son, and Mary Hartman. Among the numerous others Mary Hartman has been extremely well-known. In a period when dark performing artists once in a while showed up on TV, Lear delivered and scripted sitcoms that fixated on dark families, as well as tended to bigotry, partiality, fanaticism, and other driving social issues once esteemed excessively disputable for excitement TV. He was known for his nearby contribution with his shows, even at the stature of his notoriety, when he was chipping away at about at least six projects on the double.
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