Larry Gelbart was a great wit, who wrote with great heart. I don't want to dampen laughs by saying that he wrote classics. He wrote gags, one-liners, plays, sitcoms and films. He co-wrote the 1982 ...

"M*A*S*H" used an early episode to turn its operating theater into a stage, offering a sharp mix of comedy and drama from ...

Gelbart’s career spanned six decades, from radio (which led to a job under Bob Hope) to the early days of TV — working with fellow legends Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Neil Simon on Sid Caesar’s ...

In 1972, Gelbart began working on a TV adaption of Robert Altman’s 1970 film M*A*S*H. The series follows a group of Army doctors during the Korean War. The show premiered on Sept. 17, 1972, and became ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry Gelbart is best known for turning “M*A*S*H” into a hit television series that blended witty and ribald humor with a serious ...

The bearer of a distinctive comic voice has died. Larry Gelbart, who guided the transition of the hit movie M*A*S*H from the big screen to its long run on TV, was 81 years old. Three years ago Gelbart ...

Larry Gelbart, the creative force behind the long-running hit television series, “M*A*S*H,” died Sept. 11 of cancer. He was 81. Gelbart was born in 1928 in Chicago. His Latvian father worked as a ...

Veteran film and TV scribe Larry Gelbart will receive the WGA West's Valentine Davies Award honoring industry and other contributions. By Carl DiOrio, The Associated Press Veteran film and TV scribe ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A funny thing happened to Larry Gelbart yesterday on the way to death’s ...