Celebrity Biographies
Gene Reynolds
He was behind two of the most successful series of the 70s. Gene Reynolds, creator of “M*A*S*H” and director and writer “Lou Grant”, passed away on February 3, 2020 at the age of 96 in his Burbank, California residence. His wife, Ann Sweeney Reynolds, has clarified that it occurred due to heart failure.
Born on April 4, 1923, in Cleveland (Ohio), Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal –his full name– began his career as an actor with the short Our Gang Washee Ironee, from 1934. Shortly after, he shared the screen with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Andrés Harvey falls in love . Over the course of three decades he appeared briefly in titles such as Forja de hombres , Camino de Santa Fe or Rhapsody of youth .
In 1957, Gene Reynolds retrained as a television writer. Along with Frank Gruber and James Brooks, he created the series Tales of Wells Fargo for NBC. During the show’s five-year run, he wrote and directed numerous episodes. His glory stage came in the 70s, when he created M*A*S*H with Larry Gelbart , a comic series based on Robert Altman ‘s feature film of the same name , which reached 120 chapters, of which he wrote eleven and directed twenty four. He also wrote and directed numerous episodes of Lou Grant .
Gene Reynolds was elected President of the Directors Guild of America in 1993, a position he held for four years until 1997.