Biography

Ed Friendly was born in New York on 8 April 1922 and spent the summers of his youth in Idaho where he participated in rodeos. After Pearl Harbor he joined the United States Army as a private and emerged as an infantry captain. Friendly served in various parts of the Pacific Theater during World War II. After the war, Friendly joined the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne (BBD&O) where he apprenticed as a director for radio and television. After succeeding, he moved on to ABC where he was the Director of Advertising Sales. Later he became a contract producer with CBS and then he went to NBC where he was the Vice President of Special Programs. In 1967 Friendly relocated to Los Angeles where he launched his own production company, Ed Friendly Productions Inc. Together with George Schlatter he produced the groundbreaking sketch comedy series "Laugh-In" which went on to win several Emmys and popularized the phrase "Sock it to me." One of his other major credits was as p

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