Earl Pomerantz
{{Short description|Canadian television producer and writer (1945–2020)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|2|4}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|3|7|1945|2|4}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| occupation = Producer, screenwriter
| years_active = 1970–2020
| nationality = Canadian/American
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Earl Pomerantz (February 4, 1945 – March 7, 2020) was a Canadian-born screenwriter, who spent almost the entirety of his career working in U.S. television comedy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/earl-pomerantz-mary-tyler-moore-cheers-writer-dead|title=Earl Pomerantz, 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Cheers' writer, dead at 75|website=Fox News |date=10 March 2020}}
Career
Pomerantz wrote a weekly column for the Toronto Telegram in the late 1960s. He broke into writing TV comedy while living in Toronto, getting a position as a writer on 1970's The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour, which starred his brother Hart Pomerantz and Lorne Michaels.
Pomerantz moved to Hollywood in 1974, where he found work writing in sitcoms, writing scripts for such shows as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and Taxi. By the 1980s, Pomerantz was developing and creating network television series, such as Major Dad, Family Man and Best of the West, and he continued to write scripts for Cheers, Newhart, and The Cosby Show. He won two Primetime Emmy Awards,{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/award_history_search?person=+Earl+Pomerantz&program=&start_year=1949&end_year=2010&network=All&web_category=All&winner=All |title=Primetime Emmy Awards and Nominations for Earl Pomerantz |publisher=Primetime Emmy® Award Database |access-date=November 14, 2011}} a Writers Guild of America Award, the Humanitas Prize and a CableACE Award.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690068/awards Awards for Earl Pomerantz], IMDb
In the 2000s, he delivered several commentaries on NPR’s All Things Considered.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-pomerantz |title=Earl Pomerantz profile |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=November 14, 2011}}
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External links
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Category:American television producers
Category:American television writers
Category:American male television writers
Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners
Category:Jewish American screenwriters
Category:Jewish Canadian writers
Category:21st-century American Jews
Category:21st-century Canadian Jews
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