David Brenner

Age: 73
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Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Born: Feb. 4th, 1936

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David Brenner's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	David Brenner
Comics Unleashed	David Brenner
The Michael Essany Show	David Brenner

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

Appeared on _"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962)_ (qv) more times than any other guest.
Married and divorced three times.
In high school, was elected class president each year and "Class Comedian."
Attended Temple University where he graduated with honors, majoring in mass communication.
Longtime friend of 'Richard Lewis (II)' (qv).
Lived with Charisse Brody from 1980-83. They had 1 son.
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 59-60. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
In 1976, he was to co-star as a divorced hairdresser in the beautician comedy series "Snip", a TV takeoff of the 'Warren Beatty' (qv) movie _Shampoo (1975)_ (qv). Just before its scheduled September 30th debut, NBC abruptly canceled the show -- so fast in fact that TV Guide did not even have time to remove a special feature on the show in its Fall Preview of September 18-24. Why? One of the show's supporting characters, a fellow hairdresser named Michael, was openly gay and NBC got cold feet at the last minute. Had "Snip" premiered, it would have been a first on American series TV. Instead, 'Billy Crystal' (qv) went on to receive that honor with his gay character a year later on the popular series _"Soap" (1977)_ (qv). Seven episodes of "Snip" were completed when it got the ax. The only place the series ended up airing was in Australia, and it became the highest rated show in Australian history at that time.

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