Harvey Korman Net Worth is
$200,000

Mini Biography

Harvey Korman was a lanky, popular Television comedy veteran having a flair for large comic characterizations, who have shone for ten years as main character and second banana par quality for the Carol Burnett Display (1967) but didn’t find much achievement in his personal projects. Harvey Herschel Korman was created in Chicago, Illinois, to Ellen (Blecher) and Cyril Raymond Korman, a salesman. His parents, both immigrants, had been from Russian Jewish family members. A persistent Television presence because the early 1960s, Korman’s 1st big break was a stint like a presented performer for the Danny Kaye Display (1963), a energetic musical range series. Right here Korman began employed in the format which he’d soon master–providing durable support to a multi-talented celebrity in a multitude of humor sketches. Boasting huge, expressive features and a wonderfully mutable tone of voice, Korman could play a broad assortment of personas. Perhaps his 1st traditional characterization was offered for The Flintstones (1960) wherein he was the distinctively snooty tone of voice of THE FANTASTIC Gazoo, just a little helmeted space guy from the near future consigned towards the Earth’s past in consequence for his offences. Korman garnered four Emmys for his use Carol Burnett over time. Her show under no circumstances retrieved from his departure in 1977 to go after other tasks. Ironically Korman could not again discover such an effective display for his skills though he certainly attempted, appearing in a number of busted pilots and short-lived sitcoms. Like ‘Dan Aykroyd’, a later on somewhat comparable skill, he fared greatest in sketch humor. Almost specifically a comic acting professional, he stretched a little to try out straight guy Bud Abbott reverse Friend Hackett’s Lou Costello in the unsatisfactory Television biopic Bud and Lou (1978). Korman also aimed and/or created sitcom shows and TV humor specials. An intermittent actor in movies, Korman produced his feature debut having a assisting role within the last of the trick Agents? (1966). Many film roles adopted until he obtained his widest publicity with a significant assisting part in ‘Mel Brooks”s traditional Traditional western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974). Korman also fared well in Brooks’ Large Stress (1977) and Background of the Globe: Component I (1981). Korman acted in two 1994 features: the blockbuster live-action edition from the Flintstones (1994) (offering the voice from the Dictabird) as well as the badly received but lavishly created Radioland Murders (1994).

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Quick Facts

Full NameHarvey Korman
DiedMay 29, 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height1.91 m
ProfessionComedian, Voice Actor, Television Director, Television producer
EducationThe Theatre School at DePaul University
NationalityAmerican
SpouseDeborah Korman, Donna Ehlert
ChildrenMaria Korman, Christopher Korman, Laura Korman, Katherine Korman
ParentsEllen Korman, Cyril Raymond Korman
AwardsGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program, TV Land Legend Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Special Classification Of Individual Achievements, Primetime Emmy Award for Special Classification Of Outstanding Program Achievement, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Comedy Variety or Variety Musical
NominationsTV Land Most "Out of this World" Character Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Supporting Performer - Music or Variety, TV Land Favorite Second Banana Award
MoviesBlazing Saddles, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, The Flintstones, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Herbie Goes Bananas, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Trail of the Pink Panther, Curse of the Pink Panther, Eunice, Star Wars Holiday Special, Jingle All the Way, Americathon, The Longshot, Lord Love a Duck, Radioland Murders, Munchies, The April Fools, The Man Called Flintstone, Huckleberry Finn, Don't Just Stand There!, Alice in Wonderland, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, Gone Are the Dayes, First Family, Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure, Betrayal of the Dove, The Invisible Woman, Three Bites of the Apple, Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, Crash Course, Gideon, Suddenly Single, A Carol Burnett Special: Carol, Carl, Whoopi & Rob, Carpool, Christmas with Danny Kaye featuring Peggy Lee
TV ShowsMama's Family, The Nutt House, The Carol Burnett Show, The Tim Conway Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Flintstones, The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration, Carol Burnett and Friends, Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills, The Harvey Korman Show

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