Stan Burns

{{Short description|American screenwriter}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Stan Burns

|birth_date = {{birth date|1923|09|04}}

|birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2002|11|05|1923|09|04}}

|death_place = Woodland Hills, California, U.S.

|occupation = Screenwriter

|spouse = Shirley Burns

|children = 2

}}

Stan Burns (September 4, 1923 - November 5,{{Cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/11/11/in-passing/7b6e50e1-1718-44a2-a1ed-11a8e6c74974/| title=In Passing| newspaper=The Washington Post| date=November 11, 2002| access-date=July 11, 2021}} 2002) was an American screenwriter. He was the partner of Mike Marmer. Burns wrote for television programs including The Steve Allen Show,{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0OSb-FWS_H4C&pg=PA151| title=Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen And the Original Tonight Show| page=151| first=Ben| last=Alba| date=December 2, 2009| publisher=Prometheus Books| isbn=978-1615922208| via=Google Books}} The Tonight Show, Get Smart,{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-aS_vD_lYwEC&pg=PA65| title=Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"| first=David| last=Bianculli| page=65| date=December 1, 2009| publisher=Simon and Schuster| isbn=978-1439109533| via=Google Books}} The Carol Burnett Show, F Troop, Gilligan's Island and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.{{Cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/11/arts/stan-burns-television-comedy-writer-79.html| title=Stan Burns; Television Comedy Writer, 79| author=The Associated Press| work=The New York Times| date=November 11, 2002| access-date=July 11, 2021}}{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQbCzAEACAAJ| title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002| first=Harris| last=Lentz| page=47| publisher=McFarland| date=April 9, 2003| isbn=9780786414642| via=Google Books}}

Burns won and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards between 1959 and 1973, winning in 1972 for work on The Carol Burnett Show.{{Cite web | url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/stan-burns| title=Stan Burns|work= Television Academy| access-date=July 11, 2021}} He died in November 2002 of heart failure at the Motion Picture & Television Fund cottages in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 79.{{Cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-08-me-passings8.2-story.html| title=Stan Burns, 79; Comedy Writer for Top 1950s-'70s Variety Shows| work= Los Angeles Times| date=November 8, 2002| access-date=July 11, 2021}}{{Cite web | url=https://variety.com/2002/scene/people-news/stan-burns-1117875674/| title=Stan Burns| author=Variety Staff| work=Variety| date=November 7, 2002| access-date=July 11, 2021}}