---
name: "Earl Pomerantz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/earl-pomerantz"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "4 February 1945"
died: "7 March 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T21:11:11.826454+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Earl Pomerantz

Producer. Born 4 February 1945 in Toronto. Died 7 March 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 4 February 1945, Toronto
- **Died:** 7 March 2020
- **Active:** 1978–1992
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 86 (1), 1990s 91 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5326044, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690068/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/159694

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Taxi*](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Earl Pomerantz (4 February 1945 – 7 March 2020) was a Canadian-born screenwriter and producer who worked primarily in American television comedy. He began his career writing a weekly column for the Toronto Telegram in the late 1960s and contributed to the Canadian variety series The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour in 1970, which starred his brother Hart Pomerantz and Lorne Michaels. He moved to Hollywood in 1974.

Pomerantz wrote episodes for series including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show (1972), Taxi (1978), Rhoda, Phyllis, Cheers, Newhart (1982) and The Cosby Show (1985), on which he also served as co-executive producer and showrunner. He created or developed Major Dad, Best of the West and Family Man. He received two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Writers Guild of America Award, the Humanitas Prize and a CableACE Award. In later years he contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, hollywoodreporter.com, theglobeandmail.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1)

- *Taxi* (1978), Fi1m 86, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Larry Sanders Show* (1992), Fi1m 91, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-larry-sanders-show.md)

## Also known for

- *Amazing Stories* (1985), Writer
- *The Bob Newhart Show* (1972), Writer
- *Newhart* (1982), Writer

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