BY
Bud Yorkin
American producer, director, and screenwriter
1926 – 2015aged 89
Bud Yorkin partnered with Norman Lear in 1958 to form Tandem Productions, which produced the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, and Sanford and Son. He also directed films including Divorce American Style (1967) with Dick Van Dyke and the cult satire Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) with Gene Wilder, and won nine Emmy Awards for the 1958 television special An Evening with Fred Astaire. In 2002 he received the Norman Lear Achievement Award and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.