Paul Henning, 93; Authored ‘Beverly Hillbillies,’ Almost every other Comedies to have Tv
Paul Henning, the television author and you may music producer exactly who created “This new Beverly Hillbillies,” and this turned one of the biggest attacks of sixties and you will spawned the most popular outlying-funny spinoffs “Petticoat Junction” and you can “Environmentally friendly Miles,” passed away Friday. He was 93.
Henning, who had several slight strokes lately, passed away out of sheer grounds within Providence St. Joily said.
Once writing to possess radio's “Fibber McGee and you will Molly” on the later 1930s, Henning composed to have George Injury and you will Gracie Allen's broadcast and tv suggests. He in addition to created, introduced and you may composed “This new Bob Cummings Let you know,” a famous state funny on the good wolfish photos; they ran out-of 1955 to help you 1959.
Motivated in part from the memory from camping travel to the Ozarks as a great Boy Scout, Henning created a seafood-out-of-h2o tip to own a sequence you to definitely made television background: An excellent “bad mountaineer” out of the blue influences oils and you may movements their recently wealthy family members off a beneficial cabin on Ozarks into the a mansion from the hills from Beverly.