Tony Geiss

Born November 16, 1924· Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

† Died January 21, 2011

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Raised in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village to immigrant parents-an Ukrainian-born painter-animator and an English-born press agent-Tony Geiss served as a radar technician in the Navy before earning a degree from Cornell in 1946. He entered television writing, contributing jokes to The David Frost Show and material for comedians such as Dick Cavett and Bill Cosby, then became a staff writer and lyrici… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources