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{{Infobox person
| name= Irving Pincus (Televison and film producer and scriptwriter)
| birth_date=March 14, 1914
| birth_place=[[New York City]]
| death_date=May 13, 1984 (aged 70)
| death_place=[[Los Angeles]], [[California]]
| religion=[[Jewish]]
}}
'''Irving Pincus''' (March 14, 1914 – May 13, 1984) was a [[film]] and [[television]] writer and producer who created the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[CBS]] [[situation comedy]], ''[[The Real McCoys]],'' which aired in prime time from 1957 to 1963 and subsequently in rebroadcasts over many years. ''The Real McCoys'' is the story of a farm family from [[West Virginia]], who relocated to the [[San Fernando Valley]] in southern California. Though a comedy, it is known for his inspirational themes.
Though ''The Real McCoys'' did not air until 1957, Pincus had already coined the title and in 1955 was shopping the prospective series with [[NBC]].<ref>"NBC-TV Preps 'Real McCoys," ''Billboard'' magazine, October 8, 1955.</ref><ref>''Billboard'' magazine apparently misspelled "Pincus" as "Pinkus"; in the October 8, 1955, edition. However, ''Billboard'' used "Pincus" and refers to "Norm and Irv Pincus" in the edition of July 5, 1952.</ref> Irving Pincus and his brother, Norman Charles Pincus (1906-1978), wrote many of the scripts for ''The Real McCoys,'' which landed two years later on the ABC Thursday evening schedule. Irving Pincus joined the series star, [[Walter Brennan]], in the formation of Brennan-Westgate Productions, with filming of the series at Desilu Studio, owned by [[Lucille Ball]] and [[Desi Arnaz]]. Pincus produced ninety-one episodes from 1957 to 1961 and wrote scripts of eighty-five segments spread throughout the duration of the program, from the third episode "The Egg War" to the series finale "Pepino's Mama."<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683913/|title=Irving Pincus|publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base]]|accessdate=September 4, 2011}}</ref>
Hyman Jack "Hy" Averback (1920-1997), a former actor from [[Minnesota]], was the principal director of ''The Real McCoys, but versatile co-star Richard Crenna (1926-2003), in the role of Luke McCoy, later assumed duties as a director along with two others.
Kathleen Nolan (born 1933), one of the last two living members of the cast of ''The Real McCoys,'' recalls how the Pincus brothers discovered singer and bandleader Tony Martinez (1920-2002), the [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] native selected to play the Mexican farmhand Pepino Garcia. Martinez was playing at a club in [[Hollywood]], [[California]], which the Pincuses visited. Nolan, who played housewife Kate McCoy in the first five years of the series, said that Martinez first failed to contact the Pincus brothers because he thought that their interest in his services was merely a joke, but the producers pursued Martinez and signed him to the cast. Nolan, who was also the president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] from 1975 to 1980, called Martinez's selection as Pepino "a major breakthrough in terms of minority representation on television. It may not have been the representation that we are seeking now, but it certainly was a breakthrough to have a major character on television that was not white..."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cine/tony-martinez.htm|title=Tony Martinez, 'Pepino' on 'Real McCoys', Dies at 82|publisher=latinamericanstudies.org|accessdate=September 2, 2011}}</ref>
After ''The Real McCoys,'' Pincus did not produce again until the 1971 television movie ''Eddie'' and the 1972 theater film ''To Find a Man,'' starring Pamela Sue Martin. Pincus's first directing had occurred in 1950 and 1951 in two episodes of the original DuMont television version of ''The Adventures of Ellery Queen,'' which aired from 1951 to 1956. He subsequently directed seven more episodes of the series. Even earlier, he was the creator of the 1940 musical comedy at the Schubert Theatre on [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]], ''Higher and Higher'', with music by [[Richard Rodgers]] and the lyrics of Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). The play was made into a film of the same name in 1943.<ref name=imdb/>
It is unclear how Pincus, a native of [[New York City]], spent most of the remainder of his life from 1963 until his death in 1984 at the age of seventy in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name=imdb/>
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| name= Irving Pincus (Televison and film producer and scriptwriter)
| birth_date=March 14, 1914
| birth_place=[[New York City]]
| death_date=May 13, 1984 (aged 70)
| death_place=[[Los Angeles]], [[California]]
| religion=[[Jewish]]
}}
'''Irving Pincus''' (March 14, 1914 – May 13, 1984) was a [[film]] and [[television]] writer and producer who created the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[CBS]] [[situation comedy]], ''[[The Real McCoys]],'' which aired in prime time from 1957 to 1963 and subsequently in rebroadcasts over many years. ''The Real McCoys'' is the story of a farm family from [[West Virginia]], who relocated to the [[San Fernando Valley]] in southern California. Though a comedy, it is known for his inspirational themes.
Though ''The Real McCoys'' did not air until 1957, Pincus had already coined the title and in 1955 was shopping the prospective series with [[NBC]].<ref>"NBC-TV Preps 'Real McCoys," ''Billboard'' magazine, October 8, 1955.</ref><ref>''Billboard'' magazine apparently misspelled "Pincus" as "Pinkus"; in the October 8, 1955, edition. However, ''Billboard'' used "Pincus" and refers to "Norm and Irv Pincus" in the edition of July 5, 1952.</ref> Irving Pincus and his brother, Norman Charles Pincus (1906-1978), wrote many of the scripts for ''The Real McCoys,'' which landed two years later on the ABC Thursday evening schedule. Irving Pincus joined the series star, [[Walter Brennan]], in the formation of Brennan-Westgate Productions, with filming of the series at Desilu Studio, owned by [[Lucille Ball]] and [[Desi Arnaz]]. Pincus produced ninety-one episodes from 1957 to 1961 and wrote scripts of eighty-five segments spread throughout the duration of the program, from the third episode "The Egg War" to the series finale "Pepino's Mama."<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683913/|title=Irving Pincus|publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base]]|accessdate=September 4, 2011}}</ref>
Hyman Jack "Hy" Averback (1920-1997), a former actor from [[Minnesota]], was the principal director of ''The Real McCoys, but versatile co-star Richard Crenna (1926-2003), in the role of Luke McCoy, later assumed duties as a director along with two others.
Kathleen Nolan (born 1933), one of the last two living members of the cast of ''The Real McCoys,'' recalls how the Pincus brothers discovered singer and bandleader Tony Martinez (1920-2002), the [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] native selected to play the Mexican farmhand Pepino Garcia. Martinez was playing at a club in [[Hollywood]], [[California]], which the Pincuses visited. Nolan, who played housewife Kate McCoy in the first five years of the series, said that Martinez first failed to contact the Pincus brothers because he thought that their interest in his services was merely a joke, but the producers pursued Martinez and signed him to the cast. Nolan, who was also the president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] from 1975 to 1980, called Martinez's selection as Pepino "a major breakthrough in terms of minority representation on television. It may not have been the representation that we are seeking now, but it certainly was a breakthrough to have a major character on television that was not white..."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cine/tony-martinez.htm|title=Tony Martinez, 'Pepino' on 'Real McCoys', Dies at 82|publisher=latinamericanstudies.org|accessdate=September 2, 2011}}</ref>
After ''The Real McCoys,'' Pincus did not produce again until the 1971 television movie ''Eddie'' and the 1972 theater film ''To Find a Man,'' starring Pamela Sue Martin. Pincus's first directing had occurred in 1950 and 1951 in two episodes of the original DuMont television version of ''The Adventures of Ellery Queen,'' which aired from 1951 to 1956. He subsequently directed seven more episodes of the series. Even earlier, he was the creator of the 1940 musical comedy at the Schubert Theatre on [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]], ''Higher and Higher'', with music by [[Richard Rodgers]] and the lyrics of Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). The play was made into a film of the same name in 1943.<ref name=imdb/>
It is unclear how Pincus, a native of [[New York City]], spent most of the remainder of his life from 1963 until his death in 1984 at the age of seventy in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name=imdb/>
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pincus, Irving}}
[[Category:1914 births]]
[[Category:1984 deaths]]
[[Category:Television
[[Category:Authors]]
[[Category:American Jews]]
[[Category:Business People