George Kirgo | |
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_with_picture.jpg) George Kirgo, as photographed by Elliott Erwitt, on the cover of his second book, published at the height of the author's early sixties celebrity. | |
| Born | George Blumenthal [1] March 26, 1926 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 22, 2004 (aged 78) |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, author |
| Years active | 1954–2001 |
George Kirgo (born George Blumenthal; March 26, 1926 – August 22, 2004) was an American screenwriter, author and humorist.
- ^ Vasquez, Enid. "Hartford Public's Class of' 43 Returns for Updated Fun". The Hartford Courant. October 30, 1983. "Blumenthal, who formally took his nickname and is George Kirgo, a movie and television scriptwriter in Los Angeles, updated the class 'History, Prophecy, Will' - a high school tradition in those days [...] "I think everybody expected Kirgo to be doing the kind of things he's doing,' said [John C.] Lennoff" [then vice president of financial affairs at Connecticut Public Broadcasting] [...] His class yearbook called him the 'Orson Welles of HPHS.'" Retrieved 2014-02-09 via ProQuest.
- ^ Oliver, Myrna. "George Kirgo, 78; Led '88 Writers Strike Against Studios". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-02-04.