What is Jack Mendelsohn?
'''Jack Mendelsohn''' (November 8, 1926 &ndash; January 25, 2017) was an American [[writer]]-[[artist]]. He worked in animation, comic strips and comic books. He was an Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor. He had many credits as a TV scripter, including ''[[Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In]]'', ''[[Three's Company]]'', ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]'' and ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''. Among his work for feature movies, he was a co-screenwriter of ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' (1968). In 2004, the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild gave him a [[Lifetime Achievement Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=464|title=WGAw Animation Writers Caucus Honors Jack Mendelsohn with Lifetime Achievement Award|publisher=Writer's Guild of America, West|author=Gabriel Scott|date=2 November 2004|access-date=8 November 2015|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305084910/http://wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=464|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mendelsohn was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]. He served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. Mendelsohn died of [[lung cancer]] on the evening of January 25, 2017, aged 90.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsfromme.com/2017/01/25/jack-mendelsohn-r-p/|title=Jack Mendelsohn, R.I.P.|author=Mark Evanier|date=25 January 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mendelsohn, Jack}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from lung cancer]] [[Category:American television writers]] [[Category:American screenwriters]] [[Category:American comics artists]] [[Category:American painters]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] {{US-bio-stub}}