Larry Rickles

{{Short description|American screenwriter and producer (1970–2011)}}

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|name = Larry Rickles

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|birth_name = Lawrence Rickles

|birth_date = {{birth date|1970|5|12}}

|birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2011|12|3|1970|5|12}}

|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|occupation = Screenwriter, producer

|years active = 1996–2011

|father = Don Rickles

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Lawrence Rickles (May 12, 1970 – December 3, 2011) was an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He won an Emmy Award in 2008 for his work on Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, a documentary about his father, actor and comedian Don Rickles.{{cite news|first=Mike|last=Barnes |title=Don Rickles' Only Son Dies at 41, Larry Rickles earned an Emmy Award for a 2007 documentary about his dad |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/don-rickles-son-dies-at-270157 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=December 6, 2011 |access-date=December 20, 2011}}{{cite news|title=Larry Rickles, Primetime Emmy-Winning Producer and Son of Comedy Icon Don Rickles |url=http://www.emmys.tv/news/2011/larry-rickles-primetime-emmy-winning-producer-and-son-comedy-icon-don-rickles |work=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |date=December 7, 2011 |access-date=December 20, 2011}}{{cite news|title=Passings: Dev Anand, Larry Rickles |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20111207-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=December 7, 2011 |access-date=December 20, 2011}}

Early life

Rickles was born on May 12, 1970, in Los Angeles. Don said on an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson that Barbara conceived Larry while he was on set in the Istrian village of Vižinada in the former Yugoslavia (now Istria, Croatia), while filming Kelly's Heroes in July 1969. He was the brother of actress Mindy Rickles.

Career

Rickles began his career by working on set at several sitcoms. He was an actor in the 1999 movie David and Lola. He was a member of the Writers Guild of America, West. He won admission into a Warner Bros. writing workshop in 1996, and the following year he was hired as a television writer for the CBS comedy series Murphy Brown.

Rickles co-produced the 2007 HBO documentary about his father, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project. The documentary won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special in 2008 and Rickles received an Emmy for his work. Rickles' father also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his appearance in the film.