Jack Chertok

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Jack Chertok (July 13, 1906, Atlanta, Georgia - June 14, 1995, Los Angeles) was a film and television producer, perhaps best know to modern viewers as producer for the 182 black and white episodes of The Lone Ranger and as executive producer of the series My Favorite Martian.

Beginning in the mid-1930's he produced a wide variety of film shorts for MGM, including comedies, documentaries and crime dramas. His comedy short How to Sleep, starring Robert Benchley, won the 1935 Academy Award for Short Subjects, comedy. He was the producer for many short films in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series and produced many of the Our Gang shorts after MGM took over that series from Hal Roach.

In 1949, Chertok made the move to television, producing 182 episodes for The Lone Ranger television series. He is also credited as a producer for other series such as Sky King, Cavalcade of America on the DuMont Television Network, and The Lawless Years.

He was executive producer for the television series Private Secretary (1953-57), Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1955), My Favorite Martian (1963-66), and My Living Doll (1964-65).

Jack Chertok died in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, 1995.