Director

Ed Friendly

Production

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 1227201

IMDb ID: nm0295561

Known for: Production

Born: April 8, 1922

Died: June 17, 2007

Age: 85

Place of birth: New York City, New York

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1968 - 2014

Years active: 47

Average TMDB rating: 7.6

Wikidata: Q2460482

Also known as

Edwin Samson Friendly, Jr.

Frequent jobs

Executive Producer (7)Producer (4)Associate Producer (1)Creator (1)

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Biography

Edwin "Ed" Samson Friendly Jr. was an American television producer. He was responsible for creating the television programs Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Little House on the Prairie, and Backstairs at the White House. Born in New York City, Ed Friendly served with the United States Army in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. After the war, he worked at the advertising agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. He began his television career in 1949, working for ABC as director of sales before moving to CBS as a contract producer and then, in 1959, to NBC as vice president of special programs. Friendly moved to California in 1967 and formed his own production company, Ed Friendly Productions, Inc. He received the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1975 for Little House on the Prairie[4] and in 1978 for Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion, an adaptation of the 1972 children's novel San Domingo, the Medicine Hat Stallion by Marguerite Henry.

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