Awards & Winners

Mel Tolkin

Date of Birth 03-August-1913
Place of Birth Odessa
(Kherson Governorate, Ukraine)
Nationality Ukraine
Also know as Shmuel Tolchinsky, Samuel Tolchinsky
Profession Television Producer, Screenwriter
Mel Tolkin, né Shmuel Tolchinsky, was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the seminal live TV sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a storied staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, and Larry Gelbart. The writers' room inspired the film My Favorite Year, produced by Brooks, and the Broadway play Laughter on the 23rd Floor, written by Neil Simon. Tolkin, who won an Emmy Award and every other major prize for television writing, was the father of screenwriter-novelist Michael Tolkin and TV writer-director Stephen Tolkin.

Awards by Mel Tolkin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mel Tolkin.

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Love, Sidney

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Comedy Series All in the Family
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

1967


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement In Variety
Honored for : The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement In Variety The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Comedy Series The Danny Kaye Show

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Writing In Comedy Caesar's Hour

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedy Writing - Variety or Situation Comedy Caesar's Hour

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Writing In Comedy Caesar's Hour