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| Born | Burton Anselm Boyar Script error: No such module "person date". New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Author, biographer, columnist, actor |
| Years active | 1939–2018 |
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Burt Boyar (November 30, 1927 – April 4, 2018[1]) was a Broadway columnist,[2] voice actor, and author. He voiced the title character of Archie Andrews for NBC Radio in 1945 [3] 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, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and TV Guide.[4] He reached out to Davis for an interview after Mr. Wonderful opened on Broadway in 1956.[5][6] They became close friends and after almost a year they began working on the best-selling memoir.[7] Later a follow-up book, Why Me?, was published in 1989.[2] Boyer also compiled a book of photographs taken by Davis, entitled Photo by Sammy Davis Jr, which was published in 2007.[8]
Boyer's collection of material relating to Sammy Davis Jr. can be found at the Library of Congress.[9]
Biography
Burton Anselm Boyar was born in New York City. He was the middle son of Lillian and Benjamin Boyar. His father a theatrical general manager known as the "Mayor of Broadway." Boyar was a child actor; he starred in numerous radio series, among them he played Billy Batson on "Captain Marvel" and Archie Andrews in "Archie." Despite not graduating from high school or attending college, Boyar was adept at English composition.[10] Boyar was an equestrian. He served in the National Guard during the Korean War. After completing his service, Boyar became a Broadway press agent, then a nationally syndicated columnist.[11]
Personal life and death
Boyar married Jane (née Feinstein -1997) in 1954 and they were married for 44 years. He never married Betsy Bloomingdale but was her close companion from 2001 until her death in 2016.[11]
Boyar died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles, California on April 4, 2018. He was 90.
Bibliography
Books by Jane and Burt Boyar
- Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis Jr. (1965; coauthor Sammy Davis Jr.)
- World Class (1975)
- Why Me? The Sammy Davis Jr. Story (1989; coauthor Sammy Davis Jr.)
- H.L. and Lyda: Growing Up in the H L Hunt and Lyda Bunker Hunt Family as Told by Their Eldest Daughter August House Publishers.[12] (1994; as collaborators, primary author Margaret Hunt Hill)
- Sammy: An Autobiography (2000; coauthor Sammy Davis Jr.)
- Hitler Stopped by Franco.[13] (2001)
- Invisible Scars (2012; released after Jane's death) [14]
Books by Burt Boyar
- Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. (2007; cover reads "Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. Text by Burt Boyar)[15][16]
- Blessed (2012)
- Low Society: Fables of the 50s’ and 60s’ Café Society New York City (2013)
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Burt Boyar Obituary (1927 - 2018) Los Angeles Times". Legacy.com.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David Hajdu (2009). Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. Da Capo Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-306-81833-2.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dunning, John (19 March 1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.New York Media, LLC (31 August 1970). "New York Magazine". New York. New York Media, LLC: 4–. ISSN 0028-7369.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965)". Judd Brothers.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boyar, Burt (2007). Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. New York: Regan Books. ISBN 9780062273963.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Library of Congress, Burt Boyar Collection" (PDF).
- ^ http://techchek.pro/burtboyar.com.html[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Burt Boyar Obituary (1927 - 2018) Los Angeles Times". Legacy.com.
- ^ "H.L. and Lyda: Growing Up in the H L Hunt and Lyda Bunker Hunt Family as Told by Their Eldest.... " Publishers Weekly, 1994.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boyar, Jane; Boyar, Burt (2012). Invisible Scars. Marbella House. ISBN 9780971039254.
- ^ Boyar, Burt (2007). Photo by Sammy Davis Jr. New York: HarperCollins.
- ^ Elliott, David. "Book review: Photo by Sammy Davis Jr,". Bend Weekly.
External links
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