Ronny Graham (August 26, 1919 – July 4, 1999) was an American actor and theatre director, composer, lyricist, and writer.
Graham was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of vaudeville performers Florence (née Sweeney) and Steve Graham. Graham began his career as a nightclub comic. He made his Broadway debut in the revue New Faces of 1952, to which he contributed sketches and lyrics and in which he performed. He won the Theatre World Award for his efforts. He later made similar contributions to New Faces of 1956 and New Faces of 1962. He wrote the lyrics for Bravo Giovanni, which garnered him a Tony Award nomination, and directed a string of unsuccessful plays, two of which closed on opening night, in the mid-1960s to early 1970s.
As a writer, Graham penned seven episodes of M* A* S* H and nine episodes of The Brady Bunch Hour and the screenplays for the Mel Brooks' films To Be or Not to Be and Spaceballs. He had a recurring role on Chico and the Man and made guest appearances on Murder She Wrote, Picket Fences, and Chicago Hope.
Graham was married three times, to Jean Spitzbarth (1947 - 1950), with whom he had one child, and Ellen Hanley (1951 - 1963), with whom he had two children, and both of whom he divorced, and Sigyn Lund, (1965 - 1999), with whom he had two children and to whom he was married when he died of liver disease in Los Angeles.
References
^ Ronny Graham Biography (1919-)
External links
Ronny Graham at the Internet Movie Database
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 147/1000000
Post-expand include size: 809/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 297/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronny_Graham"
Categories: 1919 births | 1999 deaths | American film actors | American lyricists | American screenwriters | American stage actors | American television actors | American theatre directors | American writers | People from Philadelphia
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
Languages
Français
This page was last modified on 12 August 2008, at 12:08.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
