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| - Gene Reynolds (born April 4, 1923) is a former American actor turned award-winning television writer, television director, and television producer.
- Born in Cleveland, Ohio to businessman and entrepreneur, Frank Eugene Blumental and his wife, and growing up in Detroit, Michigan, Reynolds started working as a child actor in the 1930s. As a child actor, he would appear in such films as Boys Town, Edison, the Man, Prisoner of War, The Mortal Storm and Jungle Patrol, and would later appear on such televison shows as Studio 57, Dragnet, The Public Defender and I Love Lucy. In the 1950s, he started the transition to becoming a writer, by writing for Tales of Wells Fargo, a series which he was also the creator. Reynolds would later write for the television version of M*A*S*H and Lou Grant, series which he would also helped to produce and direct.
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| - Born in Cleveland, Ohio to businessman and entrepreneur, Frank Eugene Blumental and his wife, and growing up in Detroit, Michigan, Reynolds started working as a child actor in the 1930s. As a child actor, he would appear in such films as Boys Town, Edison, the Man, Prisoner of War, The Mortal Storm and Jungle Patrol, and would later appear on such televison shows as Studio 57, Dragnet, The Public Defender and I Love Lucy. In the 1950s, he started the transition to becoming a writer, by writing for Tales of Wells Fargo, a series which he was also the creator. Reynolds would later write for the television version of M*A*S*H and Lou Grant, series which he would also helped to produce and direct. At the same time that he was working on Tales of Wells Fargo, he was also beginning to produce, and/or direct, television episodes, soon working on such shows as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, My Three Sons, The Munsters, F Troop, The Farmer's Daughter, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Captain Nice and Mannix. By the time he was working as a director/producer on The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Reynolds has quit acting, with his last appearance being on an episode of the mid-60s sitcom, Captain Nice, a series for which he was also acting as a director. In 1969, he began working on the series, Room 222, a series that was set in a southern California high school of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The series, looking at the lives of the school's teachers, administrators and students, used light dialogue to attract viewers to the show every week while looking at the social issues of the day and their impact on the school. After Room 222, Reynolds would involve himself with Larry Gelbart in the television adaptation of the social-satire book and later successful film, MASH. The long running series, which was a look at an Army surgical unit during the Korean War, but was really commenting on the United States involvement in Vietnam, uses comedy to act as a counterpoint to the human dilemma of facing bureaucratic tangles while facing possible death, and commenting on the absurdity of war. Receiving two Emmy Awards for best directing in 1975, and 1976, he became the series' executive producer full time in 1977 after Larry Gelbart's departure. Also in 1977, Reynolds, teaming up with James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, became involved with the new Lou Grant series, which transferred the popular character, Lou Grant, from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, where he became an editor of a newspaper. The critically acclaimed series dealth with constitutional and ethical issues, pitting journalists of a metropolitian newspaper against politicians, corporate executives, courts and the general public, avoiding cliché-driven plots by focusing on complex, unresolved issues and the show's vulnerable characters. After Lou Grant, Reynolds would work on such television shows as Blossom, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Touched by an Angel, as well as such television movies as In Defense of Kids and Doing Life. He also did pilot episodes of possible television series. He served as President of the Directors Guild of America DGA from 1993-1997. Reynolds would win five Emmy Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award and a Peabody Award. His last produced program was the 30th Anniversary M*A*S*H Reunion show which was shown in 2002. He has been married twice and has a son.
- Gene Reynolds (born April 4, 1923) is a former American actor turned award-winning television writer, television director, and television producer.
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