Alan Abel(1924-2018)
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Writer, musician and film producer whose greatest claim to fame is in
being one of the country's greatest practical jokers. Four years out of
Ohio State University, Abel perpetrated his first major hoax in 1959 as
the mastermind of the "Society for Indecency to Naked Animals" in which
he persuaded actor Buck Henry to portray the president of the Society
and appear on Television recommending the diapering of farm animals for
decency's sake. Other classic hoaxes by Abel involved him and his wife
Jeanne lobbying for a nude postage stamp of Jane Fonda, promoting a
fictional Sex Olympics, and convincing the press that General Idi Amin
was getting married in a lavish wedding at New York's Plaza Hotel on
the sly. Abel and his wife were constantly able to fool the public and
the press alike.
