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Richard Baer was born on April 28, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Love Boat (1977), The Brady Bunch (1969) and The Partridge Family (1970).
Baer attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a degree in journalism. He then went on to work as a copywriter for an advertising agency in New York City.
In the 1950s, Baer began writing for television, working on shows such as The Phil Silvers Show, The Danny Thomas Show, and The Red Skelton Show. He also wrote for the sitcoms The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family.
In the 1970s, Baer wrote for the popular television series The Love Boat. He also wrote for the television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976).
Baer has been married to his wife, Barbara, since 1954. They have two children, a son and a daughter.
Baer is now retired and lives in Los Angeles, California. He is 80 years old.
As of 2021, Richard Baer's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.
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Richard Baer died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, on February 22, 2008, at the age of 79. He had suffered a heart attack in January 2008. He was survived by his wife, Diane Asselin Baer, a television producer, whom he married in 1994, as well as his children, Josh, Matthew (who married Amy Bosley Baer, daughter of Tom Bosley), and Judy and three grandchildren. His first wife of 35 years, Louise Golden, died in 1991.
Baer's maternal uncle was David Sarnoff, a broadcasting pioneer who headed the RCA company. Sarnoff is credited with beginning Baer's career and forming his interest in television. According to Baer's 2005 autobiography, Sarnoff called a vice president at NBC at 6 a.m. and ordered him to find Baer "a job by 9 o'clock" that same morning. The vice president obliged. Baer was hired in 1953 for his first job in television as an assistant for the William Bendix sitcom The Life of Riley, which aired on the NBC network. He later wrote several episodes for the show.
Baer was an active member of the Writers Guild of America. He served on the WGA's negotiating committee during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike.
Baer's wrote his last television sitcom script for an episode of ABC's Who's the Boss? in the 1980s. He then successfully tried his hand as a playwright. Baer's Mixed Emotions, a romantic comedy play about two widowed friends who start a romantic relationship during their later years, debuted in 1987. The play first opened in Los Angeles. Baer's play later debuted on Broadway in New York City in 1993 and ran for more than six weeks. Mixed Emotions was later performed in theaters worldwide, including Eastern Europe and Australia.
Baer began working on television movies later in his career. His writing credits included the 1972 ABC comedic television movie Playmates, which starred Alan Alda and Doug McClure as divorced single fathers. The Los Angeles Times called Playmates "spiced with biting wit" in its review of the movie. Baer also wrote the CBS movie I Take These Men, which aired in 1983.
Baer began writing for Hennesey, which starred actor Jackie Cooper, in 1960. Baer wrote scripts for a total of 38 episodes for the series. His work on Hennesey earned him an Emmy nomination.
In the twenty five years that followed 1960, Baer wrote for over 56 separate television shows. This included ten episodes of the television classics That Girl, twenty-three of Bewitched, and five of The Munsters. His favorite episode of The Musters which he personally penned was Just Another Pretty Face. In the episode, the character Herman Munster is struck by lightning, which changes his face into that of a normal human being. The Munsters are shocked by how ugly they think Herman has become. His other sitcom credits included The Andy Griffith Show, F Troop and Petticoat Junction.
Baer wrote the script for the film Life Begins at 17 for Columbia Pictures in 1958.
Richard Baer (April 28, 1928 – February 22, 2008) was an American writer and screenwriter. Baer wrote for more than 56 television shows, many of which were sitcoms, throughout his career, including The Munsters, Leave It to Beaver and Bewitched.
Richard Baer was born in New York City in 1928. He was the only child of Herbert Baer and Ede Sarnoff. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University and his master's degree in cinema from the University of Southern California.