A family spokesman for Bud Yorkin says the film and TV producer best known for his work on the pioneering sitcom “All in the Family” has died.
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He died at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.
“Yorkin directed and co-produced numerous most revolutionary hit sitcoms of the 1970s, exhibits that broke new floor by interjecting topical, real-world parts of class, race, politics and social change in addition to beforehand unseen settings into comedian conditions”, his spokesman stated in a press release.
“His was the horse we rode in on and I couldn’t love or appreciate him more”, Lear said in a statement.
Yorkin also had a wealth of film directing credits including Never Too Late, Twice In a Lifetime, Love Hurts, and The Thief Who Came to Dinner. The pair worked on a number of TV shows before they adapted an English comedy as “All in the Family” with star Carroll O’Connor in 1971.
Yorkin went on to produce other hit shows, including “The Jeffersons” and the popular “What’s Happening”, a teen comedy. He worked his way up to directing “The Spike Jones Show” and “Light’s Diamond Jubilee” and in 1957, he wrote, directed, and produced the Emmy Award-winning “An Evening With Fred Astaire”.
He was a producer on the planned sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 science- fiction film “Blade Runner“, set to begin production next year, Sanderson said. In 1979, Toy Productions was acquired by Columbia Pictures, the same studio that would acquire Lear’s Embassy Communications in 1985.
Yorkin was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002, and in 2003, he received the David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award in Television from the Producer’s Guild of America.
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He soon switched to working as a stage manager, then a writer for NBC’s variety showcase, “The Colgate Comedy Hour“. He became a favorite director for variety series including “The Dinah Shore Show” and “The George Gobel Show”. Nicole Yorkin is a prominent writer-producer and showrunner.
