William Asher
Directing
Born 1921-08-08
Died 2012-07-16
New York City, New York, USA
51 credits
Primetime Emmy Awards 1
Emmy Award 1
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- 1966 Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series Won Bewitched
Emmy Award 1 won
- — Emmy Award Won
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William Milton Asher (August 8, 1921 – July 16, 2012) was an American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series.
With television in its infancy, he introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and was hyperbolically credited in one magazine article with "inventing" the sitcom. In 1964, he began to direct episodes of Bewitched, which starred his wife Elizabeth Montgomery. He produced the series from the fourth season.
He was nominated for an Emmy Award four times, winning once for directing Bewitched in 1966. He was also nominated for the DGA Award in 1951 for I Love Lucy.
In 1951, he married actress Danny Sue Nolan, with whom he had two children; the couple divorced in 1961. He then married actress Elizabeth Montgomery in 1963, just before Bewitched began its run. They had three children and divorced in 1973. His third marriage was to actress Joyce Bulifant and it lasted from 1976 to 1993. He adopted her son, actor and director John Mallory Asher. This marriage also ended in divorce. In 1998, he married Meredith Coffin Asher, his fourth and final wife.
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Filmography
Directing
45 credits
Bewitched
Alice
The Twilight Zone
American Playhouse
I Love Lucy
Four Star Playhouse
The Danny Thomas Show
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Crazy like a Fox
The Patty Duke Show
Jungle Cubs
Vacation Playhouse
Temperatures Rising
Racket Squad
Gidget
The Thin Man
The Paul Lynde Show
The Jane Wyman Show
The Bad News Bears
Harper Valley
Private Benjamin
Tabitha
Johnny Cool
Beach Party
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
General Electric Theater
Muscle Beach Party
The 27th Day
Bikini Beach
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Beach Blanket Bingo
Fireball 500
Flatbush
Fibber McGee & Molly
A Bewitched Christmas
The Shadow on the Window
Movers & Shakers
Charley's Aunt
I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later
Return to Green Acres
A Christmas for Boomer
Mr. Bevis
Mobs, Inc.
Jan & Dean: On the Run
Leather Gloves
Writing
8 credits
The Patty Duke Show
Kay O'Brien
Muscle Beach Party
Bikini Beach
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Beach Blanket Bingo
Fireball 500
Sally
Producing
7 credits
Bewitched
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Temperatures Rising
Johnny Cool
Pippi Longstocking
Movers & Shakers
Jan & Dean: On the Run
Other credits
2 credits
Acting
1 credit
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