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Gardner is best known for his 1962 play A Thousand Clowns, which ran for 428 performances. He received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay for the successful 1965 movie adaptation . The play was revived in 1996 and 2001.
Herb Gardner was born on 28 December 1934 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for A Thousand Clowns (1965), The Goodbye People (1984) and I'm Not Rappaport (1996). He was married to Rita Gardner and Barbara C. Sproul.
- December 28, 1934
- September 23, 2003
Conversations with My Father is a play by Herb Gardner. The play, which ran on Broadway in 1992 to 1993, was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Broadway Playbill
- Herb Gardner
- 1994
Herb Gardner, the Broadway dramatist who wrote few plays but had many productions, died Sept. 24, his agent Robert Lantz confirmed. He was 68 and had been in poor health for some time.
Sep 25, 2003 · Herb Gardner, whose 1962 play "A Thousand Clowns" was the first of a string of Broadway successes in which his eccentric characters conveyed the whimsical charm and dark truths that grew out of...
A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe and starring Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, and Barry Gordon. An adaptation of a 1962 play by Herb Gardner, it tells the story of an eccentric comedy writer who is forced to conform to society to retain legal custody of his nephew.
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Sep 26, 2003 · Herb Gardner, an award-winning playwright best known for his Broadway hits “A Thousand Clowns,” “I’m Not Rappaport” and “Conversations With My Father,” has died. He was 68. Gardner, who had a...
