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    Allen Albert Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999) was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality, best known...
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    University of Denver graduate. Peter Funt grew up in New York, where he worked summers on the set of his father Allen Funt's show, Candid Camera. He graduated...
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  • Look up funt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Funt may refer to: Funt (mass), obsolete Russian unit equivalent to a pound Allen Funt (1914–1999), American...
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    on television from 1948 until 2014. Originally created and produced by Allen Funt, it often featured practical jokes, and initially began on radio as The...
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  • What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (category Films directed by Allen Funt)
    hidden-camera style reality film directed by Candid Camera creator Allen Funt. In the film, Funt secretly records people's reactions to unexpected encounters...
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    Allen Funt: he was the producer of Candid Camera and a collector of Alma-Tadema's at a time when the artist remained very unfashionable. After Funt experienced...
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  • Silent Show. Paar Candid Camera: The off-again, on-again show, hosted by Allen Funt since radio's heyday, was a segment on The Tonight Show in 1958. Stump...
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  • Money Talks (1972 film) (category Films directed by Allen Funt)
    directed by Allen Funt. The film was released on August 30, 1972, by United Artists. As in his Candid Camera television show, Allen Funt uses a hidden...
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    1991, Di Bona secured the rights to produce a revival of Candid Camera; Allen Funt, who owned the rights to the show and agreed to the deal mainly because...
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    television game show Match Game from 1973 until 1981, a co-host with Allen Funt on the 1970s version of Candid Camera, and a regular in the TV series...
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  • investigation was initially prompted by a lawsuit filed by Candid Camera creator Allen Funt, alleging that the new series was copying old Candid Camera situational...
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    Garry Moore Show in the 1950s and Candid Camera, which he co-hosted with Allen Funt from 1961 through 1966. Kirby was born on August 24, 1911, in Covington...
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  • situations are almost as old as the television medium itself. Producer-host Allen Funt's Candid Camera, in which unsuspecting people were confronted with funny...
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    policy on blue-plate specials. One 1947 Candid Microphone episode features Allen Funt ordering a blue-plate special and trying to talk the waiter into making...
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    went on in her place and caught the attention of Candid Camera creator Allen Funt, who happened to be in the audience that night. Soon after, Flagg was...
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  • Candid Camera host Allen Funt on the flight led many of the passengers to conclude that the hijacking was actually a prank. Funt and others were later...
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  • described the show as "what amounts to a huge practical joke". Creator Allen Funt said that the concept for The Candid Microphone came to him while he was...
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    Allen Funt The Brazil family operated the 1,255 acres (508 ha) ranch for nearly a century. In 1977, Tony and Margaret Brazil sold the ranch to Allen Funt...
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  • lawsuit filed against the Fox Broadcasting Co. by Candid Camera's creator Allen Funt, who also accused the show of stealing his ideas. While the producers...
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    She spent five years as a news producer for NBC-TV. She also worked for Allen Funt on Candid Camera. In the late 1950s, Smith worked as a ghostwriter for...
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    American hidden-camera style reality film directed by Candid Camera creator Allen Funt. In the following years, he became a leading man in early 1970s films...
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    Candid Camera, and Hirschfeld's caricature of the show's host Allen Funt outraged Funt so much he threatened to leave the network if the magazine were...
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    American impressionist painter and designer Carl Folta, Viacom executive Allen Funt William Gaddis Josh Greenfeld Hananiah Harari, American modernist painter...
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    participant on CBS-TV's Candid Camera with Durward Kirby and series creator Allen Funt. In 1961 she occasionally guest-hosted a short-lived Carol Burnett and...
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    Fox started his career as a producer for The Candid Microphone with Allen Funt, a radio show that would later become Candid Camera. He later worked for...
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    (June 7, 1950) Candid Microphone CBS Radio Show (June 27, 1950) starring Allen Funt Murder and Bela Lugosi WPIX-TV show (Sept. 18, 1950) Lugosi did this one-hour...
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  • popular television program Candid Camera and an admiration for its creator, Allen Funt. By the time he was college age, his family had moved to nearby Queens...
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  • Tormé Mario Puzo Bill Wendell John Holliman Rory Calhoun Susan Strasberg Allen Funt Joseph Cates Esther Rolle Roddy McDowall Gene Siskel Flip Wilson DeForest...
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    hijack a 727 from Newark, New Jersey, to Cuba. Candid Camera creator Allen Funt was a passenger on the flight, and because other passengers recognized...
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    landowner Kaffe Fassett textile artist Lawrence Ferlinghetti author Allen Funt actor Al Jardine musician Philip Johnson architect Carolyn Mary Kleefeld...
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