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screenwriter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Zalotta Rosenberg</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1946; <abbr title="annulled">ann.</abbr> 1947)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div 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May 6, 2005) was an American <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> writer, a <a href="/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer">producer</a> for such <a href="/wiki/Comedy" title="Comedy">comedy</a> shows as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show" title="The Tonight Show">The Tonight Show</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i>, and a <a href="/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Bye_Bye_Braverman" title="Bye Bye Braverman">Bye Bye Braverman</a></i>). During his tenure at <i>Saturday Night Live</i>, he and <a href="/wiki/Chevy_Chase" title="Chevy Chase">Chevy Chase</a> created <a href="/wiki/Weekend_Update" title="Weekend Update">Weekend Update</a>, the longest-running sketch in the show's history, and one of the longest-running sketches on television.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herb_Sargent&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born Herbert Supowitz in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> on July 15, 1923. He was the older brother of <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Award</a>-winning screenwriter <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a>. Raised in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Darby_Township,_Pennsylvania" title="Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania">Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania</a>, he studied architecture at <a href="/wiki/Penn_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Penn State University">Penn State University</a> before serving with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> <a href="/wiki/Air_Transport_Command_(United_States_Air_Force)" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Transport Command (United States Air Force)">Air Transport Command</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II" title="Pacific Ocean theater of World War II">Pacific Theater</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. He moved to <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> and graduated from <a href="/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sargent then moved to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and began his career in <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a>. Moving to television, he was one of the writers for the much-acclaimed <a href="/wiki/Steve_Allen" title="Steve Allen">Steve Allen</a> Show (on NBC from 1956–60). He later helped develop television specials for <a href="/wiki/Petula_Clark" title="Petula Clark">Petula Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perry_Como" title="Perry Como">Perry Como</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_King_(comedian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alan King (comedian)">Alan King</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milton_Berle" title="Milton Berle">Milton Berle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anne_Bancroft" title="Anne Bancroft">Anne Bancroft</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Burt_Bacharach" title="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a>. </p><p>Sargent was married four times. </p><p>His first marriage was in late 1946 or early 1947 to Zalotta Rosenberg. The marriage was annulled in October 1947. </p><p>His second marriage was in 1958 to <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Brooks_(actress)" title="Geraldine Brooks (actress)">Geraldine Brooks</a>; the couple divorced in 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later that year he married actress <a href="/wiki/Norma_Crane" title="Norma Crane">Norma Crane</a>, but they had divorced by the time she died in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His last marriage was to Katherine LeGrand Council Mellon in 1991; they remained together until his death in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sargent won six <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Awards</a> and six <a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers Guild of America Award">Writers Guild of America Awards</a>. He was also President of the <a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America,_East" title="Writers Guild of America, East">Writers Guild of America, East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He died from a <a href="/wiki/Heart_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart attack">heart attack</a> following surgery on May 6, 2005, in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan,_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan, New York City">Manhattan, New York City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herb_Sargent&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 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(writer)">Thomas Meehan</a>, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Herb Sargent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Judith_Viorst" title="Judith Viorst">Judith Viorst</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Baker_(screenwriter)" title="Herbert Baker (screenwriter)">Herbert Baker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hal_Goodman" title="Hal Goodman">Hal Goodman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Klein_(screenwriter)" title="Larry Klein (screenwriter)">Larry Klein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Schiller" title="Bob Schiller">Bob Schiller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Steinberg" title="Norman Steinberg">Norman Steinberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Weiskopf" title="Bob Weiskopf">Bob Weiskopf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flip_Wilson" title="Flip Wilson">Flip Wilson</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Art_Baer" title="Art Baer">Art Baer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Beatty" title="Roger Beatty">Roger Beatty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Burns" title="Stan Burns">Stan Burns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Hart" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Juhl" title="Jerry Juhl">Jerry Juhl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Langham" title="Chris Langham">Chris Langham</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Odell" title="David Odell">David Odell</a> (1981)</li> <li>Jeffrey Barron, Dick Blasucci, <a href="/wiki/John_Candy" title="John Candy">John Candy</a>, Chris Cluess, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dolman" title="Bob Dolman">Bob Dolman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Flaherty" title="Joe Flaherty">Joe Flaherty</a>, Paul Flaherty, Stuart Kreisman, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Levy" title="Eugene Levy">Eugene Levy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Martin" title="Andrea Martin">Andrea Martin</a>, John McAndrew, <a href="/wiki/Brian_McConnachie" title="Brian McConnachie">Brian McConnachie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rick_Moranis" title="Rick Moranis">Rick Moranis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catherine_O%27Hara" title="Catherine O'Hara">Catherine O'Hara</a>, Mert Rich, Michael Short, Doug Steckler and <a href="/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(actor)" title="Dave Thomas (actor)">Dave Thomas</a> (1982)</li> <li>Dick Blasucci, <a href="/wiki/John_Candy" title="John Candy">John Candy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dolman" title="Bob Dolman">Bob Dolman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Flaherty" title="Joe Flaherty">Joe Flaherty</a>, Paul Flaherty, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Levy" title="Eugene Levy">Eugene Levy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Martin" title="Andrea Martin">Andrea Martin</a>, John McAndrew, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Short" title="Martin Short">Martin Short</a>, Michael Short, Doug Steckler and Mary Charlotte Wilcox (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Elliott" title="Chris Elliott">Chris Elliott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanford_Jay_Frank" title="Sanford Jay Frank">Sanford Frank</a>, Ted Greenberg, <a href="/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman">David Letterman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Merrill_Markoe" title="Merrill Markoe">Merrill Markoe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Martin_(writer)" title="Jeff Martin (writer)">Jeff Martin</a>, Gerard Mulligan, <a href="/wiki/Steve_O%27Donnell_(writer)" title="Steve O'Donnell (writer)">Steve O'Donnell</a>, Joe Toplyn, Matt Wickline and <a href="/wiki/David_Yazbek" title="David Yazbek">David Yazbek</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Cohen" title="Randy Cohen">Randy Cohen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Curran_(writer)" title="Kevin Curran (writer)">Kevin Curran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Elliott" title="Chris Elliott">Chris Elliott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanford_Jay_Frank" title="Sanford Jay Frank">Sandy Frank</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Gorodetsky" title="Eddie Gorodetsky">Eddie Gorodetsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fred_Graver" title="Fred Graver">Fred Graver</a>, Larry Jacobson, <a href="/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman">David Letterman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Merrill_Markoe" title="Merrill Markoe">Merrill Markoe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Martin_(writer)" title="Jeff Martin (writer)">Jeff Martin</a>, Gerard Mulligan, Joe Toplyn and Matt Wickline (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Cohen" title="Randy Cohen">Randy Cohen</a>, <a 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