Sol Saks (December 13, 1910 – April 16, 2011) was an American screenwriter best known as the creator of the television sitcom Bewitched.

Life and career

Saks was born in New York City to Jewish parents. He attended Harrison High School in Chicago.

Sol Saks

He was a radio actor as a child. He later wrote for radio and TV series such as My Favorite Husband, Mr. Adams and Eve, and I Married Joan.

Sol Saks

Saks wrote the screenplay for Cary Grant's last film, the comedy Walk, Don't Run.<ref name="bbc">Bewitched creator Sol Saks dies aged 100 from BBC News</ref> At the time of its release, Time said his dialogue on that film "bristles amiably from first to last."

Sol Saks

He wrote The Craft of Comedy Writing'', published by Writer's Digest Books.

Death

Saks died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia on April 16, 2011, at the age of 100, in Los Angeles, California.

References

External links

Extensive video interview with Saks from May 2009, from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

1910 births

2011 deaths

American male radio actors

Television producers from New York City

American male screenwriters

American comedy writers

Deaths from pneumonia in California

Deaths from respiratory failure

Screenwriters from New York City

Male actors from Chicago

American centenarians

American male child actors

Jewish American male actors

Bewitched

Screenwriters from Illinois

Television producers from Illinois

Men centenarians

21st-century American Jews