Tony Webster, whose successful television writing career spanned three decades and included three Emmys for his work on the ”The Phil Silvers Show,” has died.
Mr. Webster, whose writing credits stretch from such pioneering programs as ”Your Show of Shows” to ”Love Boat,” died June 27 of cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 64.
He shared three Emmys with other writers for ”The Phil Silvers Show,”
in 1955, 1956 and 1957.
Mr. Webster was nominated for Emmys three other times, including for
”Car 54, Where Are You?” in 1961, ”That Was the Week That Was” in 1963 and a ”Kraft Music Hall” special called ”The Kopycats Kopy TV” in 1970.
He got his start in New York as a writer for the popular Bob and Ray radio series, later moving to television with the Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca series ”Your Show of Shows,” where he worked with such writers as Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbert and Mel Tolkin.
In 1961, Mr. Webster won a Writers Guild script award for an Art Carney special, ”Call Me Back.”
He is survived by his mother, a daughter and a grandson.
