Biography
Lee Kalcheim is an American screenwriter born on 27 June 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began his television writing career in the mid-1960s and has contributed episodes to series including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965), N.Y.P.D. (1967–69), All in the Family (1971–72), Sanford and Son (1972), and The Paper Chase (1983–85).
Kalcheim received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for the All in the Family episode 'The Bunkers and the Swingers' (1972). He created the sitcom Something Wilder (1994–95) and wrote the feature film Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). He has also written numerous plays and was educated at Trinity College and the Yale School of Drama.
