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Edwin "Ed" Samson Friendly Jr. (April 8, 1922 – June 17, 2007) was an American television producer. He was responsible for creating the television programs Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Little House on the Prairie, and Backstairs at the White House.
Jun 22, 2007 · June 22, 2007. Ed Friendly, co-producer of hit television shows including the rambunctious “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and the frontier saga “Little House on the Prairie,” died Sunday at his...
Mar 30, 2018 · Ed Friendly was born in Manhattan on April 8, 1922. He spent his formative summers on a ranch in Idaho where he fell in love with horses and the American West. He served as an Army captain in the Pacific during World War II.
Jun 20, 2007 · Ed Friendly, a producer who brokered the deal that brought “Laugh-In” to television and who created the series “Little House on the Prairie” after noticing his daughter reading the books, has...
Ed Friendly. Producer: Little House on the Prairie. Ed Friendly was born in New York on 8 April 1922 and spent the summers of his youth in Idaho where he participated in rodeos. After Pearl Harbor he joined the United States Army as a private and emerged as an infantry captain.
Ed Friendly (born April 8, 1922-died June 17, 2007) served as co-executive producer of NBC-TV's Little House on the Prairie series with creator Blanche Hanalis and series co-star Michael Landon.
Ed Friendly. Producer. 7 April 1922 to 16 June 2007. Two television shows stand out on the CV of Friendly, who could justifiably lay claim to have produced a pair of iconic American programmes.
