Burt Boyar
| Burt Boyar | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Burton Anselm Boyar November 30, 1927 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, biographer, columnist, actor |
| Years active | 1939–present |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Boyar (deceased) |
| Website |
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Burt Boyar is a Broadway columnist,[1] voice actor, and author. He voiced the title character of Archie Andrews for NBC Radio in 1945 [2] and co-wrote Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. with wife Jane Boyar and Davis himself.
Boyar's work as a columnist was featured in The Morning Telegraph, Philadelphia Enquirer, and TV Guide.[3] He reached out to Davis for an interview after Mr. Wonderful opened on Broadway in 1956.[4][5] They became close friends and after almost a year they began working on the best-selling memoir,[6] Later a follow-up book, Why Me?, was published in 1989.[1] Boyer also compiled a book about photographs taken by Davis, entitled Photo by Sammy Davis Jr.
Boyer's collection of material relating to Sammy Davis Jr. can be found at the Library of Congress.[7]
Books
- H.L. and Lyda: Growing Up in the H L Hunt and Lyda Bunker Hunt Family as Told by Their Eldest.... August House Publishers.[8]
- Yes, I Can
- Photo by Sammy Davis Jr.[9]
- Hitler Stopped by Franco.[10]
Invisible Scars Low Society Blessed
References
- 1 2 David Hajdu (2009). Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. Da Capo Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-306-81833-2.
- ↑ John Dunning (19 March 1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-0-19-984045-8.
- ↑ New York Media, LLC (31 August 1970). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 4–. ISSN 0028-7369.
- ↑ Wil Haygood (28 May 2014). In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Junior. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-8041-7252-3.
- ↑ "Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965)". Judd Brothers.
- ↑ Boris Kachka (12 August 2014). Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Simon and Schuster. pp. 161–. ISBN 978-1-4516-9191-7.
- ↑ "Library of Congress, Burt Boyar Collection" (PDF).
- ↑ "H.L. and Lyda: Growing Up in the H L Hunt and Lyda Bunker Hunt Family as Told by Their Eldest.... " Publishers Weekly, 1994.
- ↑ Elliott, David. "Book review: Photo by Sammy Davis Jr,". Bend Weekly.
- ↑ Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (23 May 2005). The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism. Cambridge University Press. pp. 409–. ISBN 978-0-521-84706-3.