Mel Tolkin

Mel Tolkin was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Danny Simon. The writers' room inspired the film My Favorite Year (1982), produced by Brooks, and the Broadway play Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993), written by Neil Simon. ^{Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (d. 2007)}

3 August 1913

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Charlie Shavers • Edward Petherbridge • Ernesto Samper • Georgy Shonin • Jerry G. Bishop • John C. Stennis • John Erman • Jules Bianchi • Lisa Ann Walter • Mariusz Jop • Michael Ealy • Ola Abidogun • Rona Anderson

Born in the same month (August 1913): Don DeFore • Jack Dreyfus • Johann Niemann • Len Butterfield • Leonard Pagliero • Lindsay Hassett • Mark Felt • Menachem Begin • Oscar Alfredo Gálvez • Paul Dean (baseball) • Richard Stone • Robert Irving (conductor) • Robertson Davies • Terence Reese