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George Furth

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George Furth (December 14, 1932 – August 11, 2008) was an American librettist, playwright, and actor. [1]

81 relations: A Rage to Live, A Very Special Favor, Actor, Actors Studio, Adam-12, Airport '77, All in the Family, American Raspberry (film), Batman (TV series), Blazing Saddles, Bonanza, Broadway theatre, Bulworth, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Carol Burnett, Chicago, Columbia University, Company (musical), Doctor Detroit, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, F Troop, Games (film), George Cukor, Getting Away with Murder (play), Goodbye Lover, Green Acres, Hanna-Barbera, Happy Days, Hooper (film), Hot Spot (musical), How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, I Dream of Jeannie, Illinois, Ironside (1967 TV series), Kander and Ebb, L.A. Law, Libretto, Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Love, American Style, Maiden and married names, Master's degree, McHale's Navy, Megaforce, Merrily We Roll Along (musical), Murder, She Wrote, Murphy Brown, Myra Breckinridge (film), New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Nobody's Perfect (1968 film), ..., Norman... Is That You?, Northwestern University, Oh, God! (film), P.J. (film), Playwright, Respiratory disease, Santa Monica, California, Shampoo (film), Sitcom, Sleeper (1973 film), Stephen Sondheim, Tammy (TV series), Television film, That Girl, The Act (musical), The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda, The Best Man (1964 film), The Boston Strangler (film), The Cannonball Run, The Cool Ones, The Dumplings (TV series), The Man with Two Brains, The Monkees (TV series), The New Interns, The New York Times, The Odd Couple (1970 TV series), The Scarlett O'Hara War, The Third Girl from the Left, Twigs (play), What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, Young Doctors in Love. Expand index (31 more) »

A Rage to Live

A Rage to Live is a 1965 American drama film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Suzanne Pleshette as a woman whose passions wreak havoc on her life.

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A Very Special Favor

A Very Special Favor is a 1965 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gordon, and starring Rock Hudson and Leslie Caron.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Actors Studio

The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Adam-12

Adam-12 is a television police procedural drama that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit 1-Adam-12.

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Airport '77

Airport '77 is a 1977 American air disaster film and the third installment of the ''Airport'' franchise.

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All in the Family

All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979.

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American Raspberry (film)

American Raspberry (also known as Prime Time and Funny America) is a 1977 parody film that lampoons various films of the 1970s, much like The Groove Tube, Tunnel Vision, The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon.

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Batman (TV series)

Batman is a 1960s American live action television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name.

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Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

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Bonanza

Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Bulworth

Bulworth is a 1998 American political comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film).

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Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer and writer, whose career spans seven decades of television.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Company (musical)

Company is a 1970 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth.

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Doctor Detroit

Doctor Detroit is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Michael Pressman with writing by Bruce Jay Friedman, Carl Gottlieb, and Robert Boris.

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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions.

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F Troop

F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom about U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s that originally aired for two seasons on ABC.

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Games (film)

Games is a 1967 American psychological thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Katharine Ross, James Caan, and Simone Signoret.

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George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director.

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Getting Away with Murder (play)

Getting Away with Murder is a play written by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, which ran for 17 performances on Broadway in 1996.

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Goodbye Lover

Goodbye Lover is a 1999 neo-noir comedy film about a murder plot surrounding an alcoholic advertising agency worker and his adulterous wife.

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Green Acres

Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm.

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Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (simply known as Hanna-Barbera and also referred to as H-B Enterprises, H-B Production Company and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.) was an American animation studio that served as a division of Warner Bros. Animation until it was absorbed by them.

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Happy Days

Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984 on ABC, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning eleven seasons.

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Hooper (film)

Hooper is a 1978 American action comedy film directed by Hal Needham and stars Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith, Robert Klein, James Best and Adam West.

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Hot Spot (musical)

Hot Spot is a musical with the book by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, lyrics by Martin Charnin, music by Mary Rodgers, and additional lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim.

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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life is a 1968 film directed by Fielder Cook.

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I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Ironside (1967 TV series)

Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975.

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Kander and Ebb

Kander and Ebb were a highly successful American songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander (born March 18, 1927) and lyricist Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004).

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L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Little House on the Prairie (TV series)

Little House on the Prairie (known as Little House: A New Beginning in its final season) is an American western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

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Love, American Style

Love, American Style is an anthology comedy television series produced by Paramount Television that originally aired between 1969 and 1974.

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Maiden and married names

When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of his or her spouse, that name replaces the person's birth surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name (birth name is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted by a person upon marriage.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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McHale's Navy

McHale's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network.

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Megaforce

Megaforce (or MegaForce) is a 1982 action film directed by former stuntman Hal Needham and written by James Whittaker, Albert S. Ruddy, Hal Needham and André Morgan based on a story by Robert S. Kachler.

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Merrily We Roll Along (musical)

Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a book by George Furth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim.

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Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

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Murphy Brown

Murphy Brown is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes.

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Myra Breckinridge (film)

Myra Breckinridge is a 1970 American comedy film based on Gore Vidal's 1968 novel of the same name.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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Nobody's Perfect (1968 film)

Nobody's Perfect is a naval comedy film about the fictional USS Bustard and the antics of her crew.

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Norman... Is That You?

Norman...

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.

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Oh, God! (film)

Oh, God! is a 1977 American comedy film starring George Burns and John Denver.

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P.J. (film)

P.J. (UK re-release title: New Face in Hell) is a 1968 crime-drama mystery film from Universal Pictures.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Respiratory disease

Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the nerves and muscles of breathing.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Shampoo (film)

Shampoo is a 1975 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, and directed by Hal Ashby.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Sleeper (1973 film)

Sleeper is a 1973 American futuristic science fiction comedy film, directed by Woody Allen and written by Allen and Marshall Brickman.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Tammy (TV series)

Tammy is an American sitcom, starring Debbie Watson in the title role.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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That Girl

That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971.

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The Act (musical)

The Act is a musical with a book by George Furth, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander.

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The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda

The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda is an American/Italian animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera with the Italian public service broadcaster RAI and its first channel Rai 1, loosely based on the main characters in Miguel de Cervantes' 17th century novel, Don Quixote: Don Quixote himself and Sancho Panza.

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The Best Man (1964 film)

The Best Man is a 1964 political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his play of the same title.

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The Boston Strangler (film)

The Boston Strangler is a 1968 American neo-noir film loosely based on the true story of the Boston Strangler and the book by Gerold Frank.

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The Cannonball Run

The Cannonball Run is a 1981 American-Hong Kong comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, and an all-star supporting cast.

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The Cool Ones

The Cool Ones (aka Cool, Baby Cool) is a 1967 film starring Roddy McDowall and directed by Gene Nelson.

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The Dumplings (TV series)

The Dumplings is an American sitcom starring James Coco and Geraldine Brooks that aired on NBC from January 28 to March 31, 1976.

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The Man with Two Brains

The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American science fiction comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.

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The Monkees (TV series)

The Monkees is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 12, 1966 to March 25, 1968.

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The New Interns

The New Interns is a 1964 film directed by John Rich, and the sequel to the 1962 film The Interns, itself based on the novel of the same name by Richard Frede.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)

The Odd Couple, formally titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, is an American television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC.

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The Scarlett O'Hara War

The Scarlett O'Hara War is a 1980 television film directed by John Erman.

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The Third Girl from the Left

The Third Girl From the Left is a 1973 American made-for-TV movie starring Kim Novak.

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Twigs (play)

Twigs is a play by George Furth which premiered on Broadway in 1971.

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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? is the title of a 1968 comedy film, starring George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Jeanne Arnold, Dom DeLuise and Gillian Spencer.

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Young Doctors in Love

Young Doctors in Love is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Garry Marshall.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Furth

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