Robert Fisher (playwright)

Robert "Bob" Fisher (September 21, 1922 – September 19, 2008) was an American playwright, and television and film

Biography

One of the most prolific of sitcom writers, Fisher began in television the 1950s by pairing up with a veteran radio writer twenty-five years his senior named Alan Lipscott. Lipscott and Fisher wrote the first episode of the

Fisher also wrote occasionally with Arthur Alsberg (on I Dream of Jeannie and Mona McCluskey) and had three plays produced on Broadway: the hit The Impossible Years (with Marx), Minnie's Boys (with Marx), and Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce (with Alsberg), which closed after one performance.^[1]

Fisher is also the author of the book "The Knight in Rusty Armor". A beautiful tale of man's journey to discover himself through a series of comic and tragic transformations.

Death

Fisher died in 2008 in Topanga, California, just two days before his 86th birthday,^[1][2] although other sources given the date of death as 26 September.^[3]

Works as screenwriter

His many works as a television writer included:^[1]

Partial filmography

Fisher also produced television episodes for:^[1]

• McHale’s Navy
• My Three Sons
• The Mothers-in-Law
• The Paul Lynde Show
• Life With Lucy
• Cheyenne

His plays included:^[4]

• Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce (1968)
• The Impossible Years (1968)
• Minnie's Boys (1970)
• Groucho: A Life in Revue (1987)

In his last few years he was said to lead a "a peripatetic lifestyle".^[1]

References

External links

• Robert Fisher at
  IMDb