Larry Auerbach

More than any other director, Larry Auerbach was synonymous with New York daytime drama, starting with Love of Life (1951), which he directed for 28 years. When the show ended in 1980, its final scene showed Mr. Auerbach walking from set to set, turning off the lights. The show's demise --at the time it was the second-oldest show on the air-- was reported by Walter Cronkite on that evening's news. Following "Love of Life," Mr. Auerbach went on to direct several other New York soap operas, including All My Children (1970), Another World (1964), As the World Turns (1956) and One Life to Live (1968) for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award. A collection of his early work is archived at The Paley Center for Media in New York. Larry Auerbach was born in the Bronx and raised in Mount Vernon, NY. He always considered himself a New York director, but his television career began in Chicago in the late 1940s during what is now called "The Golden Age" of television production. He was stage manager