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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Actor, Editor, Show Creator Born: 1914 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: September 5, 1999 in Pebble Beach, CA Biography:The name "Allen Funt" is synonymous with the long-running Candid Camera television franchise and its many incarnations. The basic premise of his program was to play gentle practical jokes upon innocent passersby and film their reactions. Classic Funt schemes include vending machines that talk back unexpectedly to customers, having pretty girls ask men for help with cars that do not have engines, and food that disappears from plates in restaurants and other bizarre bits of tomfoolery. At the end of a stunt, Funt and his camera crew or the actors involved would suddenly appear before the befuddled victims and say, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera!" Funt debuted the first edition of the show, Candid Microphone, on radio in 1948. Later that year, he turned to television and his show aired steadily with different hosts, including "Arthur Godfrey" and "Durwood Kirby", through 1967. For all of the stunts he... Full Biography
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