Muir, Frank

Muir, Frank
▪ 1999

      British comedy writer and broadcaster who exhibited his facility for wordplay, which figured prominently in his writing and in his participation on the radio shows "My Word!" and "My Music" and the television quiz show "Call My Bluff"; as a producer he worked on the influential BBC television shows "Till Death Do Us Part" and "Steptoe and Son," the models for the American TV series "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son," respectively (b. Feb. 20, 1920, Ramsgate, Kent, Eng.—d. Jan. 2, 1998, Thorpe, Surrey, Eng.).

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