Sam Denoff

Samuel Denoff (July 1, 1928 – July 8, 2011) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and television producer.

Denoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Esther (Rothbard) and Harry Denoff, a salesman.^[1]^[2] With his long-time collaborator Bill Persky he wrote and created the television show That Girl starring Marlo Thomas. Their writing collaboration on episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show resulted in some of the show's most popular episodes. Denoff also wrote for the 1976 Danny Thomas situation comedy The Practice.

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (1960–1969)

George Balzer & Hal Goldman & Al Gordon & Sam Perrin (1960) Dave O'Brien & Martin Ragaway & Sherwood Schwartz & Al Schwartz & Red Skelton (1961) Carl Reiner (1962) Carl Reiner (1963) No award (1964) No award (1965) Sam Denoff & Bill Persky for "Coast to Coast Big Mouth" (1966) Buck Henry & Leonard B. Stern for "Ship of Spies: Parts 1 and 2" (1967) Allan Burns & Chris Hayward for "The Coming Out Party" (1968) No award (1969)

Complete list (1955–1959) (1960–1969) (1970–1979) (1980–1989) (1990–1999) (2000–2009) (2010–present)

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (1957–69)

Billy Friedberg, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Arnold Rosen, Leonard Stern and Tony Webster (1957) No award (1958–1963) Sam Denoff, Bill Persky and Carl Reiner (1964) No award (1965) Hal Goldman, Al Gordon and Sheldon Keller (1966) Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner and Mel Tolkin (1967) Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan, Coslough Johnson, Paul Keyes, Marc London, Allan Manings, David Panich, Hugh Wedlock and Digby Wolfe (1968) Allan Blye, Bob Einstein, Carl Gottlieb, Cy Howard, Steve Martin, Jerry Music, Murray Roman, Cecil Tuck, Paul Wayne and Mason Williams (1969)

Complete list (1957–1969) (1970–1979) (1980–1989) (1990–1999) (2000–2009) (2010–2019)

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