Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
No one in the broadcast television industry -- in the U.S. or abroad -- will doubt for an instant that Sylvester (Pat) Weaver has been its foremost creative force. He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Elenor Isabel (Dixon) and Sylvester Laflin Weaver. From commercial television's nascent days at the end of the 1940s, Weaver virtually ...
April 4, 1960, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Place Of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Profession
Writer, Producer, Actor
Nationality
American
Spouse
Elizabeth Inglis
Children
Sigourney Weaver, Trajan Weaver
Parents
Sylvester Laflin Weaver, Annabel Dixon
Siblings
Doodles Weaver
Awards
Peabody Award
TV Shows
Today, The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Your Show of Shows, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Broadway Open House, Home, Kathie Lee & Hoda
On the 1947 Spike Jones record "William Tell Overture," narrator Doodles Weaver names one of the race horses "Flying Sylvester" - an inside joke referring to Sylvester, who is his brother.
When Weaver first joined NBC, TV was run on the radio model. Sponsors owned shows, controlled their content and sometimes even dictated when they aired. Weaver's ideas took away some of that control. He had the network produce its own shows and then sell commercial time to several advertisers, helping fund the medium. For his contributions, he received two Emmy awards and was inducted into the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Weaver worked at NBC from 1949, when there were only 2 million TV sets in the country, until 1956, when he resigned as chairman of the board.
President and Chairman of National Broadcasting Company (NBC) from 1949 to 1956; in such a capacity, he created and/or presided over the birth of such shows as Today (1952), Tonight! (1953), and the radio series "Monitor" which ran from 1955 to 1975.
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Served in the Navy in WWII.
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His father was a roofing manufacturer in LA.
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Graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Today
2006-2011
TV Series creator - 4 episodes
Wisdom
1959
TV Series creator
Wide Wide World
1955
TV Series documentary creator
Home
1954
TV Series creator
Tonight!
1953
TV Series co-creator - as Pat Weaver
Broadway Open House
1950
TV Series creator
Your Show of Shows
1950
TV Series creator
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Garry Moore Show
1958
TV Series executive producer - 1966
Make Me Laugh
1958
TV Series associate producer - 1 episode
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Television: Inside and Out
1981
TV Series
Regular
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1998
TV Special
Himself - Co-Presenter: Oustanding Miniseries (as Pat Weaver)
A Museum of Broadcasting Tribute: Milton Berle - Mr. Television
$700,000
