Ronny Graham
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Ronny Graham (August 26, 1919 – July 4, 1999) was an American actor and theatre director, composer, lyricist, and writer.
Born Ronald Montcrief Stringer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Graham began his career as a nightclub comic. He made his Broadway debut in the revue New Faces of 1952, to which he contributed sketches and lyrics and in which he performed. He won the Theatre World Award for his efforts. He later made similar contributions to New Faces of 1956 and New Faces of 1962. He wrote the lyrics for Bravo Giovanni, which garnered him a Tony Award nomination, and directed a string of unsuccessful plays, two of which closed on opening night, in the mid-1960s to early 1970s.
As a writer, Graham penned seven episodes of M* A* S* H and nine episodes of The Brady Bunch Hour and the screenplays for the Mel Brooks' films To Be or Not to Be and Spaceballs. He had a recurring role on Chico and the Man and made guest appearances on Murder She Wrote, Picket Fences, and Chicago Hope.
Graham was married three times, to Jean Spitzbarth (1947 - 1950), with whom he had one child, and Ellen Hanley (1951 - 1963), with whom he had two children, and both of whom he divorced, and Sigyn Lund, (1965 - 1999), with whom he had two children and to whom he was married when he died of liver disease in Los Angeles.
