Ed Friendly
TV Producer
1922 – 2007
Who was Ed Friendly?
Edwin "Ed" S. Friendly Jr. was a multiple-Emmy-nominated television producer who was responsible for creating several successful television programs, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Little House on the Prairie, and Backstairs at the White House.
Ed Friendly served with the United States Army in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. After the war, he worked at the advertising agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. He began his television career in 1949, working for ABC as director of sales before moving to CBS as a contract producer and then, in 1959, NBC as vice-president of special programs.
Friendly moved to California in 1967 and formed his own production company, Ed Friendly Productions, Inc. He received the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1975 for Little House on the Prairie and in 1978 for Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
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- Born
- Apr 8, 1922
New York City - Also known as
- Edwin S. Friendly
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Jun 17, 2007
Rancho Santa Fe
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on July 23, 2013
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