Audrey Peart Dickman

Peart was born in London, the daughter of William George Peart and Alice Agnes Stannard Peart.{{Cite news |date=2001-07-19 |title=Audrey Peart Dickman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-audrey-peart-dickman/164080863/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=Asbury Park Press |pages=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}Parents' names from the Civil Registration Birth Index for Camberwell, and the U.S. Social Securty Applications and Claims Index, both via Ancestry. Her father, a labourer, was in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during World War I; he was also enlisted to serve in World War II.Father's occupation and wartime service from the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Service Records, 1903-1922, and the UK Selected Smaller Units Service Records, 1921-1959, both via Ancestry.

Dickman worked in American television from 1968, beginning as a production assistant on The Kraft Music Hall variety program. She worked with Jim Henson on two Muppets specials, before Dickman and Henson both became involved in the NBC late night sketch program Saturday Night Live (SNL). Dickman was at the auditions for the first cast, and stayed with SNL for eighteen seasons, in various producer roles.{{Cite book |last=Hill |first=Doug |title=Saturday night: a backstage history of Saturday night live |last2=Weingrad |first2=Jeff |date=1987 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-394-75053-8 |edition=1 |location=New York |pages=50, 61, 71, 121, etc.}}{{Cite journal |last=Kornbluth |first=Jesse |date=October 1, 1984 |title=Revived, from New York, It's Saturday Night! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ieUCAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA52&dq=Audrey%20Peart%20Dickman&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q=Audrey%20Peart%20Dickman&f=false |journal=New York Magazine |pages=55}} Jane Curtin played a character named "Audrey Peart Dickman" in several sketches.{{Cite web |date=2012-03-07 |title=Jane Curtin as Audrey Peart Dickman, Steve Martin as Pat Hayes during... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/episode-1-pictured-jane-curtin-as-audrey-peart-dickman-news-photo/140802490 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us}} Dick Ebersol considered her one of the few "adults" in the show's early days; she was seventeen years older than Lorne Michaels, and at least 20 years older than many of the young writers and performers.{{Cite book |last=Tropiano |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GC0eEQAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA11&dq=Audrey%20Peart%20Dickman&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q=Audrey%20Peart%20Dickman&f=false |title=The SNL Companion: An Unofficial Guide to the Seasons, Sketches, and Stars of Saturday Night Live |last2=Ginsberg |first2=Steven |date=2024-09-17 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield| page=11 |isbn=978-1-4930-7261-3 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Hill |first=Doug |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6BkAAAAMAAJ&q=Audrey+Peart+Dickman&dq=Audrey+Peart+Dickman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYjeShoZaLAxUdJ0QIHdgLDE0Q6AF6BAgJEAM |title=Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live |last2=Weingrad |pages=50, 495|first2=Jeff |date=1986 |publisher=Beech Tree Books |isbn=978-0-688-05099-3 |language=en}}

During and after her time working on SNL, Dickman produced compilations focusing on various cast members; her last of these was a collection of Phil Hartman's best sketches, released in 1998.

• The Kraft Music Hall (1968–1970)
• Singer Presents Burt Bacharach (1971)
• Acts of Love and Other Comedies (1973)
• The Muppets Valentine Show (1974)
• The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975)
• Happy Endings (1975)
• Saturday Night Live (1975–1993, various producer roles)
• Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine, & Gilda (1979, associate producer)
• The Best of John Belushi (1985, associate producer)
• The Best of Dan Aykroyd (1986, associate producer)
• The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1988, production consultant)
• Saturday Night Live: The Best of Robin Williams (1991, coordinating producer)
• Best of Saturday Night Live: Special Edition (1992, coordinating producer)
• Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman (1998, coordinating producer)

Peart married Bernard N. Dickman in 1971. She died in 2001, at the age of 73, at her home in Middletown Township, New Jersey.{{Cite news |date=2001-07-19 |title=Deaths: Audrey Peart Dickman (paid notice) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/classified/paid-notice-deaths-dickman-audrey-peart.html |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} In May 2002, there was a memorial gathering of about 150 members of the casts and crew of SNL at Studio 8H, because "Dickman occupied a special place in the hearts of the show's cast and crew for more than two decades."{{Cite book |last=Shales |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Shales |title=Live from New York: an uncensored history of Saturday night live |last2=Miller |first2=James A. |date=2003 |publisher=Back Bay Books |isbn=978-0-316-73565-0 |edition= |location=Boston |pages=546-547}} She was included in the "In Memoriam" segment of the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in 2015. In 2024, Dickman was portrayed by actress Kirsty Woodward in the Jason Reitman film Saturday Night.{{Cite web |last=Felt |first=Klein |date=2024-10-11 |title=Saturday Night 2024 Movie Cast Next To The Real SNL Stars (Pictures) |url=https://thedirect.com/article/saturday-night-movie-cast-real-people |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Direct |language=en}}

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