Hal Kanter dies at 92

Kanter produced TV series Julia and authored for that Oscars. Emmy Award-winning comedy author Hal Kanter, who composed material for Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and various Oscarcasts and produced the floor-breaking TV series "Julia," died Sunday in Encino. He was 92 and died of complications from pneumonia.Kanter shared Emmys in 1991 and 1992 for writing the Oscars after first adding towards the Oscarcast in 1952, annually prior to the ceremony made the transition from radio to television.Kanter also directed numerous films, including 1957 Elvis pic "Loving You." In TV, he earned his finest mark using the comedy "Julia," a landmark for that TV biz in starring African-American actress Diahann Carroll inside a nonstereotypical role. She performed a widowed nurse having a youthful boy within the series that went from 1968-1971 on NBC.Younger crowd offered being an professional producer on "All in the household,Inch among other shows.Born in Savannah, Ga., the boy of Albert L. Kanter, who founded a effective comicbook line, Kanter started like a comedy author for radio within the nineteen thirties, then segued into TV as mind author for comedy-variety skein "The Erectile dysfunction Wynn Show" in 1949-50. The guy who'd later create "Julia" authored in early '50s for "The Amos 'n' Andy Show," a set scorned for that minstrelsy that it portrayed black figures.Kanter started writing for that bigscreen in 1951. His first effort was "Two Tickets to Broadway." Beginning with "My Personal Favorite Spy" that same year, he authored or co-authored numerous films starring Hope, such as the 1952 Hope-Crosby effort "Route to Indonesia," "Not Allowed,Inch "Here Come the Women" and "Casanova's Large Evening." Younger crowd composed the 1953 Jerry Lewis-Dean Martin comedy "Money At HomeInch and then authored the Elvis photos "Loving You" and "Blue Hawaii" and also the Doris Day-James Garner vehicle "Make Room Darling."Showing a significant side, Kanter did the variation of Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo" in 1955. Other screenwriting credits include George Cukor's "Let us Have Sex,Inch with Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand, and also the Frank Capra film "Pocketful of Miracles."Within the mid-'50s, Kanter produced, created and authored "The George Gobel Show," winning his first Emmy for his efforts. Throughout the seventies, Kanter authored and created for comedies including "All in the householdInch and "Chico and also the Guy" but he progressively moved focus to TV special offers and honours events, writing "NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary from the Wonderful Realm of Disney" and "AFI Existence Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda" in 1978. He started fairly steady focus on the Oscarcasts in 1991 that they ongoing until 2008.Kanter was heavily involved with activities in the Authors Guild of America, finding the WGA West's Valentine Davies Award (for industry/community service) in 1983, the WGA West's Morgan Cox Award for plan to the guild in 2005 and also the WGA West's Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television (an eternity achievement jerk) in 1989.Kanter also located many Authors Guild and Company directors Guild of America honours dinners.Children include wife Doris, to whom he was married for 70 years three kids: Donna Kanter, a author, producer and director and who owns the Donna Kanter Co., Lisa Kanter Shafer and Abigail Kanter Jaye a sister along with a daughter. Contact Carmel Dagan at carmel.dagan@variety.com