1932-2021
Jay Sandrich was born in Los Angeles, California. Sandrich was a television director who won two Emmy Awards for Directing of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Cosby Show”.
He started his career as Assistant Director of season six of “I Love Lucy”.
After “I Love Lucy” ended, he moved with the cast and crew to become AD on 11 of 13 of the “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hours”. He also was AD on “The Desilu Revue” and the Lucille Ball film The Facts of Life (1960). In addition, he worked on Desilu’s “The Ann Sothern Show” “The Untouchables” and “Angel”.
His first solo directing credit was on “The Danny Thomas Show” shot at Desilu. He had been AD on the show since 1957.
He directed three episodes of “Here’s Lucy” in 1970:
“I was so young and caught in the middle of America’s favorite couple breaking up. Psychologically, I didn’t know how to handle it because I was in the middle. They all were wonderful people but naturally there was tension.” ~ Jay Sandrich about working on "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” in 1957
Jay Sandrich was married twice and had three children. He was 89 years old.
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