Louis M. Heyward(1920-2002)
- Producer
- Writer
- Production Manager
Born in New York City, Louis Heyward was headed for a career as a
lawyer while at the same time moonlighting as a writer of scripts for
various radio series. After a six-year Air Force hitch, he landed a job
with the Associated Press but continued to dabble with radio scripts,
and later found an eight-year home as a comedy writer on daytime TV's
The Garry Moore Show (1950).
Other jobs in New York TV included writing comedy material and skits
for
The Ernie Kovacs Show (1952)
(the program was Emmy-nominated in 1956, the same year Heyward won the
Sylvania Award as its top comedy writer) and developing
The Dick Clark Show (1958).
Migrating to Hollywood, he held executive posts at 20th Century-Fox and
MCA before joining forces with American International Pictures, first
as a writer, then as director of motion picture and TV development and
ultimately as head of the company's London-based foreign arm. He later
became the vice-president of development at Barry & Enright, producers
of game shows, features and TV movies.
