john ermann

Born in Chicago on August 3, 1935, John Erman moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of six, where he attended Beverly Hills High School and later studied film at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). There he joined the theater group. During a party attended by his parents, Valentine Davies , writer of titles such as  Miracle in the City , told them about a funny young actor that he had seen in a university production, and it turned out that he was talking about Erman. Ultimately, he recruited him to play a character in the play he wrote  The Benny Goodman Story (1956), starring Steve Allen .

He studied acting with Sanford Meisner in New York. During his brief career as an actor, John Erman also appeared in Blackboard Jungle (1955) and Anything Goes (1956). But he hadn’t quite made it, so he retrained as a casting director at Republic Studios before he was offered to direct an episode of CBS ‘s Father of the Bride series. He was followed by episodes of outstanding cathodic hits, such as  The Fugitive , Star Trek and MASH , among others.

A ten-time Emmy nominee for best director, John Erman  finally won the award – given to him by the stars of the series The A-Team – for the tear-jerking telefilm  Who Will Love My Children? , where Ann-Margret gave life to a woman diagnosed with cancer in 1952, determined to find a home for her ten children.

He dealt with the second chapter of  Roots , which made history due to its enormous acceptance around the world, and three chapters of its sequel, Roots: The Next Generation . His telefilm From him An Early Frost , from 1985, was one of the first titles on AIDS. She was also behind the four episodes of Scarlett , the television sequel to the legendary  Gone with the Wind , starring  Joanne Whalley  and  Timothy Dalton .

In cinema, John Erman did little, but was behind Making It (1971), and  Stella  (1990), starring Bette Midler . After retiring as a filmmaker after the 2006 TV movie Sails on Bay Street , he went on to teach drama at Fordham University, and at the time of his death was on the Tony Award nominating committee.