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Ernest Edward Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.. Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death.
Died: Ernie Kovacs, 42, an American comedian who was killed in a car accident while driving on Santa Monica Boulevard. Kovacs and his wife, Edie Adams, were driving home separately from a baby shower in honor of Mrs. Milton Berle. At 2:00 in the morning, his station wagon skidded and crashed into a utility pole.
[68] [69] [70] Ben Model is the archivist for the Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams television collections. [71] In 2015, the Library of Congress acquired a collection of more than 1,200 kinescopes, videotapes and home movies featuring Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, from Joshua Mills, Edie Adams' son and the president of Ediad Productions. [72] [73] [74]
As time passes, Ernie Kovacs is lesser known, but a screening at the Hammer, tied to the publication 'Ernie in Kovacsland,' tries to rectify that. Ernie Kovacs was TV's original madcap genius.
First appearing on television in 1951, Kovacs was an extremely prolific producer of television comedy throughout the 1950s. As a result of the critical success of his 1957 NBC special Silent Show, Ernie came to Hollywood in 1958, where he had a film contract with Columbia Pictures to write and consult on screenplays – but no television series of his own.
He worked with comedian Ernie Kovacs on a television pilot tentatively titled "Medicine Man", shooting scenes for it on January 12, 1962—the day before Kovacs died in a car crash. "Medicine Man" was completed but not aired.
Ernie Hudson Karwai Tang/WireImage While Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson has worked consistently in the last five decades, he’s faced some struggles in his career. “Not a lot of people noticed ...
The Ernie Kovacs Show is an American comedy show hosted by comedian Ernie Kovacs, first shown in Philadelphia during the early 1950s, then nationally. The show appeared in many versions and formats, including daytime , prime-time , late-night , talk show , comedy , and as a summer replacement series.