Danny Arnold (23 January 1925 – 19 August 1995) was a producer, writer, comedian, actor and director known for producing Barney Miller, That Girl and Bewitched.
Arnold was best known for writing and producing such high-quality television sitcoms as Bewitched and That Girl. Over his career, he won two Emmy Awards, one for My World and Welcome to It and one for the series for which he is most famous, Barney Miller. This latter show also won Arnold ...
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Danny Arnold (23 January 1925 – 19 August 1995) was a producer, writer, comedian, actor and director known for producing Barney Miller, That Girl and Bewitched.
Arnold was best known for writing and producing such high-quality television sitcoms as Bewitched and That Girl. Over his career, he won two Emmy Awards, one for My World and Welcome to It and one for the series for which he is most famous, Barney Miller. This latter show also won Arnold a Peabody Award. He was honored with the Paddy Chayefsky Award in 1985 by the Writer's Guild of America to celebrate his lifetime of achievement. A native of New York City, Arnold started out acting in summer stock and doing comedy in Vaudeville, but began his career in Hollywood at Columbia Studios as a sound editor in 1944. He appeared in films as an actor opposite the hot young comic duo Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and also wrote the screenplay for the Martin and Lewis vehicle The Caddy (1953). In 1956, Arnold started writing for such...
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