Sheldon Leonard

Sheldon Leonard, born Sheldon Leonard Bershad, was an American film and television actor, producer, director and screenwriter who lived from 22 February 1907 to 11 January 1997. After a career as an actor he became an important producer of American television comedies, and he is credited as a creator of The Andy Griffith Show, one of the best remembered situation comedies of the 1960s. The facts recorded here come from the English Wikipedia article on this person, who is named as a creator in the infobox of at least one work listed in this atlas.