Norman Lear

Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes.

Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of EnieJeanette and Hyman Herman Lear, a traveling salesman. He has a younger sister, Claire Brown. Lear grew up in a Jewish home and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. His mother was born in Elizabethgrad in Kherson Gubernia in Ukraine, while his father was born in Connecticut, to Russianborn parents.

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