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American comedy writer and producer
Morton Lachman
(March 20, 1918 – March 17, 2009) was an American comedy writer and producer who worked for
Bob Hope
for more than twenty years and subsequently produced
sitcoms
for television, including
All in the Family
and
Kate & Allie
.
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He also worked on
One Day at a Time
and
Sanford
and later co-created
Gimme A Break!
with
Sy Rosen
.
He won two Emmy awards — one in 1978 for his work on
All in the Family
, and one in 1974 for his direction of an episode of
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
.
He died at age 89 from a diabetes-related heart attack.
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