Theodore J. Flicker
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Theodore J. "Ted" Flicker (born June 6, 1930 in Freehold, N.J.) He is a screenwriter, playwright, television writer, stage director, producer, film and television director, and actor.
In 1955 he notably helped to start satirical improvisation as an entertainment art form. He was producer, director, and performer with the Compass Theatre in Chicago and St. Louis and in 1960 went on to found the The Premise on New York's Bleeker Street in a basement theatre, where he cast performers such as Joan Darling, Gene Hackman, George Segal, James Frawley. The show transferred to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End.
Back in New York, Flicker then went on to form The Living Premise as pure political satire with Joan Darling and Godfrey Cambridge.
In 1959 he had written the book and directed the Broadway musical The Nervous Set.
He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film The President's Analyst (1967).
He was co-creator and a writer with the television series Barney Miller (1975), and also directed Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang in 1978 and wrote for Night Gallery, and The Streets of San Francisco.
[edit] External links
- Biography
- REVEL WITH A CAUSE-Liberal Satire in Postwar America
- Theodore J. Flicker at the Internet Movie Database
- Theodore J. Flicker at the Internet Broadway Database
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