Birth Name: Norman Milton Lear
Date of Birth: July 27, 1922
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Date of Death: December 5, 2023
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Norman Lear was an American screenwriter, producer, writer, creator, and developer. He was known for his many legendary sitcoms, many with political and social themes. He developed All in the Family, Good Times, The Jeffersons, The Dumplings, One Day at a Time, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; All’s Fair, Sanford Arms, The Baxters, and Palmerstown, U.S.A.; created All That Glitters, Fernwood 2 Night, America 2-Night, Apple Pie, Sunday Dinner, and 704 Hauser; co-developed Sanford and Son, Maude, Hot l Baltimore, and Channel Umptee-3; co-created and wrote for The Deputy; co-created The Nancy Walker Show, In the Beginning, a.k.a. Pablo, and Guess Who Died; and was a writer for The Martin and Lewis Show, Honestly, Celeste!, and The Ford Show. He also directed and co-wrote the film Cold Turkey; wrote the films Come Blow Your Horn and Divorce American Style; and co-wrote the film The Night They Raided Minsky’s. Norman hosted the show Quiz Kids. He also funded liberal and progressive causes and politicians, including founding advocacy organization People for the American Way. In the 2000s, he purchased the Dunlap broadside, one of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence, with which he toured the U.S.
Norman was the son of Jeanette (Seicol) and Hyman/Herman King Lear, a traveling salesman. His father was born in Connecticut, to Russian Jewish parents. His mother was a Jewish emigrant from Kirovohradska, Ukraine. His family moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts, and he later attended high school in Brooklyn, New York City. Norman enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, and was a radio operator/gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force, in the Mediterranean theatre. He flew 52 combat missions, and received the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters.
He was married to producer Lyn Davis, until his death. He had one child with his former wife Charlotte Rosen; two children with his former wife, activist, magazine publisher, editor and writer Frances Loeb, who published women’s magazine Lear’s; and three children with Lyn.
Norman’s paternal grandfather was Solomon Lear (the son of Jacob Simon Lear and Anna Chana Henye Yacha). Solomon was born in Elizavetgrad, Kherson, Russia. Jacob was born in Žagarė, Joniškis district municipality, Šiauliai County, Lithuania, the son of Eliezer Halevi Lier/Chesna and Scheindel Lurie. Anna was the daughter of Moshe Lev Yacha.
Norman’s paternal grandmother was Anna Chane Ruchel Russcol (the daughter of Morris Russcol and Hannah Anna Lear). Anna was born in Elizavetgrad, Kherson, Russia. Hannah was the daughter of Jacob Simon Lear, who was born in Žagarė, Lithuania; and of Chana Alperovitz.
Norman’s maternal grandfather was Yisha’aya Elimelech Seicol/Sokolovsky (the son of Isruel Sokolovsky and Genia Rivka Garfinkel). Yisha’aya was born in Elizavetgrad, Kherson, Russia. Isruel was the son of Efraim Yehudah Sokolovsky and Anna Kamenesky.
Norman’s maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Bathseva Fish (the daughter of Yisroel Fish and Rivka Rokhel). Elizabeth was born in Nikolayev, Kherson, Russia.
Source: Genealogy of Norman Lear – https://www.geni.com
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