Awards & Winners

Susan Harris

Date of Birth 28-October-1940
Place of Birth Mount Vernon
(United States of America, New York, Westchester County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Susan Spivak
Profession Screenwriter, Television Producer
Susan Harris is an American television comedy writer and producer. Harris created numerous TV series': Fay, Soap, Benson, It Takes Two, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses, Good & Evil, The Golden Palace and The Secret Lives of Men. She also wrote or co-wrote all of the episodes of Soap and appeared on two episodes of that show as a hooker named Babette. Her most successful show was The Golden Girls. Harris married television producer Paul Junger Witt on September 18, 1983; he co-produced all the shows she created. She was married from 1965 to 1969 to actor Berkeley Harris, with whom she has a son, the writer Sam Harris. The first script Harris sold was Then Came Bronson. She then wrote for Love, American Style, All in the Family, The Partridge Family and the TV adaptation of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. Her abortion episode for the Bea Arthur-starring series Maude in the 1970s won Harris the Humanitas Prize. She would later work with Arthur again in the 1980s when Arthur took one of the lead roles in The Golden Girls. Harris has chronic fatigue syndrome, which affected her ability to participate in the production of The Golden Girls. In an episode of that show titled "Sick and Tired", Harris wrote some of her struggles into the storyline where Arthur's character Dorothy was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Awards by Susan Harris

Check all the awards nominated and won by Susan Harris.

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Golden Girls
Outstanding Comedy Series

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Golden Girls

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Golden Girls

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Golden Girls

1987


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series
Honored for : The Golden Girls

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Golden Girls

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Comedy Series The Golden Girls
Premiere

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Soap

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Soap

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Soap