* 1914 – Allen Funt, American director, scriptwriter, and producer ( d. 1999 )

* September 5 – Allen Funt, American television personality ( b. 1914 )

One of the programs was Candid Camera, and Hirschfeld's caricature of the show's host Allen Funt outraged Funt so much he threatened to leave the network if the magazine were issued.

Allen Albert Funt ( September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999 ) was an American television producer, director and writer, television personality, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a television series of specials.

He followed Candid Kids ( Bernard Geis, 1964 ) with Candidly, Allen Funt: A Million Smiles Later ( Barricade Books, 1994 ).

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Peter Funt grew up in New York, where he worked summers on the set of his Father Allen Funts show, Candid Camera.

Candid Camera first aired in 1948 and was created by Peter Funt ’ s father, Allen.

In 1993, Allen Funt had a terrible stroke, which he never fully recovered from requiring Peter to host the show full-time.

Started in 1982 by Allen Funt, the foundation uses the immense comedic library of Candid Camera to send special tapes to terminally ill people throughout the entire nation.

He briefly co-hosted Candid Camera with creator Allen Funt, but that relationship, like so many others, ended acrimoniously ; Godfrey hosted at least one broadcast without Funt.

Weisinger " enjoyed surprising the readers ," and to that end introduced a number of " live personalities ... real people " into the comics, including Candid Camera < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Alan Funt, This is Your Life < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Ralph Edwards, Steve Allen, Ann Blyth and Pat Boone among others.

Since the early 1990s Norman has lived in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in a secluded estate known as " The White Gates " which she purchased from television personality Allen Funt.

Following a long dispute with the American lawyers of Allen Funt as to who held the rights to Candid Camera, Routh moved on to new fields, working with John Birt, later director general of the BBC, for Granada TV, along with Germaine Greer and Kenny Everett in Nice Time.

One 1947 Candid Microphone episode features Allen Funt ordering a blue-plate special and trying to talk the waiter into making various changes, such as replacing the vegetable soup with consommé, while the polite but increasingly annoyed waiter tries in vain to explain to Funt that " no substitutions " means what it says.

In the 1970s Allen Funt moved his production offices of " Candid Camera " to a home at the corner of Nichols Canyon and Willow Glen Road where many segment introductions were shot and the popular show was edited.

is a hidden-camera style reality film released in 1970, and directed by Candid Camera creator Allen Funt.

Allen Saunders, the creator of the Mary Worth strip, returned Capp's fire with the introduction of the character " Hal Rapp ," a foul-tempered, ill-mannered, and ( ironically ) inebriated cartoonist, ( Capp was a teetotaler ).

* Irwin Allen, creator of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, and Land of the Giants

Only Garner and series creator Roy Huggins thought Maverick could compete with The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show.

Marit Allen, a contemporary fashion journalist and editor of the influential " Young Ideas " pages for UK Vogue, firmly stated that John Bates, rather than Quant or André Courrèges, was the original creator of the miniskirt.

On June 14, 1995, Mumy and the rest of the crew paid tribute to series ' creator Irwin Allen, who died late in 1991.

David Allen ( born December 28, 1945 ) is a productivity consultant who is best known as the creator of the time management method known as " Getting Things Done ".

David Allen ( born July 30, 1972 ) is a video game designer and entrepreneur who is most recently known as the creator of Alganon, a fantasy based MMORPG developed by Quest Online, a company he co-founded in 2006.

* David Allen ( television producer ), creator of Micro Live

* David Allen ( game designer ) ( born 1972 ), creator of a number of popular niche-games

Lurie worked on Resurrecting the Champ, a boxing drama, and recently served as creator and executive producer of the short-lived television series Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis as the United States ' first female President, Mackenzie Allen.

The series was created by Thomas W. Lynch, the creator of The Secret World of Alex Mack and The Journey of Allen Strange.

Among the young pages who've helped the NBC-tour customers and studio-audience members at the Radio City Studios before going on to media success have been original Today Show host Dave Garroway and longtime Today personality Willard Scott ; original Tonight Show creator / host Steve Allen and his announcer / sidekick Gene Rayburn ; broadcast journalist Ted Koppel ; TV host Regis Philbin ; TV producer Marcy Carsey ; actress Kate Jackson ; and movie / broadcasting mogul Michael Eisner.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening said the older writers were " thrilled " to have Allen appear on the show, John Swartzwelder in particular.

Upon retirement, Smith took over for Mel Allen as the host of the television series This Week in Baseball ( TWIB ) in 1997.

* June 9 – Allen Ludden, American television game show host ( b. 1917 )

Allen Ludden was the original host, but left to do Password full-time in 1962.

In addition, many of the frequent panelists on the early episodes were not regulars later in the series, including Klugman, Arlene Francis, Bert Convy and Steve Allen, who was host of The Tonight Show when Rayburn served as announcer.

The radio broadcasting team consists of play-by-play announcer Brian Wheeler, analyst Antonio Harvey, and studio host Jay Allen.

Steve Allen was the first host of The Tonight Show, which began as a local New York show, being picked up by the NBC network in 1954.

Allen pioneered the format of late night network TV talk shows, originating such talk show staples as an opening monologue, celebrity interviews, audience participation, and comedy bits in which cameras were taken outside the studio, as well as music, although the series ' popularity was cemented by second host Jack Paar, who took over after Allen had left and the show had ceased to exist.

Kovacs ' television programs included Three to Get Ready ( an early morning program seen on Philadelphia's WPTZ from 1950 through 1952 ), It's Time for Ernie ( 1951, his first network series ), Ernie in Kovacsland, ( a summer replacement show for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 1951 ), The Ernie Kovacs Show ( 1952 – 56 on various networks ), a twice-a-week job filling in for Steve Allen as host of The Tonight Show on Mondays and Tuesdays ( 1956 – 57 ), and game shows Gamble on Love, One Minute Please, Time Will Tell ( all on DuMont ), and Take a Good Look ( 1959 – 61 ).

According to biographer Michael David Harris, " Sullivan signed Presley when the host was having an intense Sunday-night rivalry with Steve Allen.

Fred Allen, host.

Fred Allen, host.

* Steve Allen, actor, comedian, writer, and television host

* October 30-Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author

A small host of stereotypical characters greeted Allen and Hoffa down the Alley, discussing Allen's question of the week, usually drawing on news items or popular happenings around town, whether gas rationing, traffic congestion, the Pulitzer Prizes, postwar holiday travel, or the annual Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus visit.

( The show's head writer, Goodman Ace, later told radio host Richard Lamparski that Allen's lucrative NBC contract was a large factor in getting him on the show, though Allen also wrote the segments on which he appeared and consulted with the respected Ace and staff on other portions of the show.

NBC asked Paar to succeed Steve Allen as host of The Tonight Show.

* Chad Allan ( musician ) ( born 1943 ), originally Allen Kowbel, guitarist, singer and television host

Television and film actor Hal March, familiar to TV viewers as a supporting regular on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and My Friend Irma, found instant fame as the quiz show's host, and Lynn Dollar stood nearby as his assistant.

Microsoft spawned a host of other companies in the Seattle area: millionaire employees often left to found their own companies, and Allen, after his own departure from Microsoft, became a major investor in new companies.

Microsoft spawned a host of other companies in the Seattle area: millionaire employees often left to found their own companies, and Allen, after his own departure from Microsoft, became a major investor in new companies.