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| name= Irving Pincus (Televison and film producer and scriptwriter)

| name= Irving Pincus<br>(Televison and film producer and scriptwriter)

| birth_date=March 14, 1914

| birth_date=March 14, 1914

| birth_place=[[New York City]]

| birth_place=[[New York City]]

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>

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/>

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]], ''Higher and Higher'', with music by Richard Charles Rodgers (1902-1979) 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/>

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/>