Harry Stephen Ackerman was an American television producer, credited with creating or co-creating twenty-one series, seven of which were at one time being broadcast simultaneously.
11 Facts About Harry Ackerman
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Harry Ackerman was born in Albany, New York and attended Dartmouth College as a theater arts major.
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Harry Ackerman began his career in television at CBS, where he started as an executive producer in New York for the network.
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Harry Ackerman was CBS-TV west coast program vice president from 1948 to 1958.
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Harry Ackerman began his own production company, Harry Ackerman Productions, where he immediately signed an exclusive deal with Paramount TV to create TV series, specials and feature films on a co-production basis, in 1973.
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Harry Ackerman went to work on network development for Hanna-Barbera Prods.
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Harry Ackerman then joined Screen Gems, which later became Columbia Pictures Television, where he worked for 15 years, from 1958 until 1973.
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Harry Ackerman worked on many TV shows while there, including, Father Knows Best, Bachelor Father, Leave It to Beaver, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, Grindl, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Monkees, and The Partridge Family.
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Harry Ackerman won two Emmy Awards for his work and was the first producer ever honored by the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters at that organization's 1974 luncheon.
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Harry Ackerman was the adoptive father of her son from her first marriage, and he and Donahue had three sons together.
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Harry Ackerman is buried in the Garden of Heritage at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.