Mel Tolkin - Awards & Nominations

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, nÃ© 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

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