1. Harvey Herschel Korman was an American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions.
20 Facts About Harvey Korman
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Harvey Korman is best remembered as a main cast member alongside Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence on the CBS sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
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Korman briefly starred in his own sitcom The Harvey Korman Show and continued to work with his The Carol Burnett Show cast mates in projects such as The Tim Conway Show, and Mama's Family.
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Harvey Korman starred in several comedy films by Mel Brooks including Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and History of the World, Part 1.
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Harvey Korman was born in Chicago, of Russian Jewish descent, the son of Ellen and Cyril Raymond Harvey Korman, a salesman.
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Harvey Korman served in the United States Navy during World War II.
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Harvey Korman was a member of the Peninsula Players summer theatre program during the 1950,1957, and 1958 seasons.
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Harvey Korman appeared as a comically exasperated public relations man in a January 1961 episode of the CBS drama Route 66.
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Harvey Korman frequently appeared as a supporting player in The Danny Kaye Show from 1963 through 1967.
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Harvey Korman guest-starred in Dennis the Menace and in the NBC contemporary western series Empire.
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Harvey Korman starred alongside Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, and Tim Conway.
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Harvey Korman was nominated for four Golden Globes for the series, winning that award in 1975.
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In 1977, he left The Carol Burnett Show to headline his own sitcom on ABC, The Harvey Korman Show, which lasted only five episodes.
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Harvey Korman starred in Brooks' High Anxiety as Dr Charles Montague.
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Harvey Korman starred in the short-lived Mel Brooks TV series The Nutt House, and in his final Mel Brooks film, as the zany Dr Seward, in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
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Harvey Korman continued the portrayal on the spin-off series, Mama's Family in addition to introducing each episode of the series during its initial two-season NBC network run, portraying fictional television host Alistair Quince as well as directing 31 episodes of the series.
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Harvey Korman was married to Donna Ehlert from 1960 to 1977 and they had two children, Maria and Christopher Harvey Korman.
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Harvey Korman married Deborah Korman in 1982 and was married to her until he died in 2008.
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Harvey Korman died at age 81 on May 29,2008, at UCLA Medical Center as the result of complications from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm he had suffered four months earlier.
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Harvey Korman appeared on multiple Carol Burnett reunion specials over the years.