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One of my hands-down, absolute favorite pictures of Earl Hamner Jr. In this photo, Earl is at a book signing for his book, “The Twilight Zone Scripts.” I just doesn’t get any cooler than that!
From Earth To Heaven: Happy Birthday Earl Hamner Jr.
By Richard Mabey Jr.
Today, July tenth of 2016, the great Earl Hamner Jr. would have been 93 years old today. Although, I only had the high honor to meet Earl once, I still mourn dearly for him. Earl was an incredibly kind man. And, even though he was a huge success, he maintained a very real sense of modesty throughout his life.
Just one of the many, many articles that I have written in tribute to the one and only, Earl Hamner Jr.
I think that Earl was a great source of inspiration and encouragement to thousands upon thousands of writers, throughout the globe. Often times, I wrote tributes to Earl on my blog. More than once, he wrote me back, with kind words of appreciation. You just have no idea what those words of encouragement, from the great Earl Hamner Jr., meant to me.
Yours truly standing by the Walton’s Mountain Museum sign. This is the very spot in the road where my beloved father and I talked with Earl Hamner Jr.
My Dad and I visited Schuyler, Virginia (the real WaltonR
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Earl Hamner Jr., the prolific writer and producer has died, at age 92.
His most memorable and beloved work, the family drama The Waltons, earned 15 Golden Globe nominations during its nine years run in the 1970s, including three nominations for the series itself as Best Television Series- Drama three years running, in 1973-5.
Hamner's other notable series, the prime time soap Falcon's Crest, which followed The Waltons with its own successful nine seasons run in the 1980s, awarded a Golden Globes nomination to Italian superstar Gina Lollobrigida, (also a 1961 World Favorite winner) and two noms, one win to veteran movie actress Jane Wyman (also a 1951 World Favorite, and winner of two golden statuettes in the 1940s as Best Actress, Drama).
The two back-to-back family sagas could not have been more different from each other – The Waltons took place in a fictional rural Virginia coal-mining town from the Great Depression of the 1930s to World War II, featuring a struggling but loving working poor family. The series was based on Hamner's childhood: he was John Boy the eldest of eight ginger siblings.
In Falcon Crest, matriarch Wyman ruled the contemporary and wealthy
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