Awards & Winners

Willie Gilbert

Date of Birth 24-February-1916
Place of Birth Cleveland
(United States of America, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Area code 216)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as William Gomberg
Profession Screenwriter, Author, Playwright, Composer
Willie Gilbert was an American author and playwright. Born William Gomberg in Cleveland, Ohio, Gilbert's proclivity for creating gags emerged as the humor writer for the Glenville High School Torch on which he worked alongside future playwright Jerome Lawrence and the creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. After earning a BS in education he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a comedian. There he discovered that his physician, Jack Weinstock, had a skill for writing, and soon the two were contributing sketch comedy to night-club performers including Kaye Ballard and Eileen Barton, and then to the Broadway review Tickets Please. They worked extensively in early television, particularly the children's programs Howdy Doody and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, although they also sold material to such mainstream performers as Jackie Gleason. They achieved their first Broadway success as co-authors of the book for How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying in 1962, for which they shared in two Tony Awards. Later, Gilbert and Weinstock wrote the books for Hot Spot, which starred Judy Holliday, and Catch Me If You Can, a murder mystery based on a French play by Robert Thomas. Weinstock died in 1969, as the team was writing another Broadway musical, The Candy Store.

Awards by Willie Gilbert

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1962


Tony Award for Best Musical
Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Tony Award for Best Author
Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Tony Award for Best Author How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying