Edwin Albert Flesh Jr. Net Worth

Edwin Albert Flesh Jr. Net Worth is
$700,000

Edwin Albert Flesh Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Edwin Albert Flesh Jr (December 4, 1931 – July 15, 2011), known as Ed Flesh, was an American art director and designer who worked on a variety of television programs from the 1950s through the 1990s. He is best known for designing the Wheel used in the game show, Wheel of Fortune. In 1993, Flesh was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for his work on Supermarket Sweep. His other credits as a television art director include Pyramid, Days of Our Lives, Press Your Luck, Celebrity Sweepstakes, Second Chance, The New Newlywed Game, To Say the Least, Name That Tune and Jeopardy!.Flesh was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born on December 4, 1931. He received his bachelor's degree from Franklin & Marshall College, located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Flesh then enrolled at Yale Drama School, where he studied graduate level scenic design for three years.Flesh relocated to New York City after completing his studies at Yale. He worked as a scene designer for off-Broadway productions before being hired as the "supervisor of scenic design" for NBC. He transferred from New York to NBC Studios in Burbank, California, where he worked as the head art director for games shows, as well as the soap opera, Days of our Lives.Flesh is credited with conceiving and designing the wheel for NBC's Wheel of Fortune. Flesh designed the wheel to spin "horizontally instead of vertically", a design unlike most previous game show wheels.Flesh later designed the sets for The Montel Williams Show and The David Letterman Show, a short-lived daytime show on NBC which aired in 1980. He also designed the sets for three special editions of The Oprah Winfrey Show, in which Oprah Winfrey interviewed John Travolta, Barbra Streisand and Madonna.Ed Flesh died on July 15, 2011, at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California, at the age of 79. He was survived by his partner of forty-four years, David Powers.

Date Of BirthDecember 4, 1931
Died2011-07-15
Place Of BirthPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
ProfessionProduction Designer, Art Director, Set Decorator
Star SignSagittarius
#Fact
1Ed Flesh's Scenic Design career began in New York with NBC Rockafeller Center TV Studios. In 1968, Ed was hired by Milt Altman at the West Coast NBC-Burbank Studios to Art Direct the daily day-time series "The Days Of Our Lives", alias "DOOL". During his tenure on the show, Ed accepted, or was assigned additional Tele-Sales projects the art department accepted. In 1974, Ed departed "DOOL" accepting design-art direction duties on preliminary game show pilots. Among those pilots was the "Wheel of Fortune" game show pilot with Merv Griffin (Executive Producer) and Nancy Jones (Producer). The three staff Art Directors at NBC-Burbank, during 1969-1976, were John Shrum, Ed Flesh, and Hub Braden. Not on staff, but with the NBC Art Department, were Mary (Dodson) Weaver, Richard "Dick" Stiles, Spencer Davies, Jay Krause, Bob Keene, Jan Scott, Herman Zimmerman, Richard James, Molly Joseph, Frank Swig, Bill Morris, Edward Stephenson, Romaine Johnston, Ken Johnson, Mary Ann Biddle, and Rene Lagler, Charles Lisanby, and Roy Christopher (running the Brunning print machine). Ed Flesh, after quitting his staff position in 1977, retained his design office in the NBC Art department, primarily accepting game show pilot projects. On some of these sold game show pilots, he performed as the show's art director. Ed became known as the "Game Show Wizard" having more successful "sold" game show pilots as a production designer than any other West Coast designer.

Production Designer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Supermarket Sweep1990TV Series
Lingo1987TV Series 1987-1988
Days of Our Lives1968-1973TV Series 1,023 episodes

Art Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Days of Our Lives1973-2005TV Series 112 episodes
Jeopardy!1991-1995TV Series 2 episodes
Caesar's Challenge1993TV Series
The $25,000 Pyramid1986-1991TV Series 3 episodes
Scrabble1984-1990TV Series 4 episodes
Triple Threat1988TV Series 1988-1989
The $10,000 Pyramid1982-1988TV Series 10 episodes
The All-New Dating Game1986TV Series 1 episode
For Love or Money1984TV Movie
The New Newlywed Game1984TV Series 1985-1986
Go1984TV Series 1 episode
Press Your Luck1983TV Series
The Pop 'N' Rocker Game1983TV Series 1 episode
The Midnight Special1981TV Series 1 episode
Chain Reaction1980TV Series
Happy Birthday, Las Vegas1977TV Special
Second Chance1977TV Series
Stumpers!1976TV Series 1 episode
Christmas in Disneyland1976TV Movie

Set Decorator

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The All-New Dating Game1986TV Series
Celebrity Double Talk1986TV Series
Time Machine1985TV Series
Your Number's Up1985TV Series
Scrabble1984TV Series
Go1983TV Series
You Bet Your Life1980TV Series
The Guinness Game1979TV Series
All Star Secrets1979TV Series
The Better Sex1977TV Series
Name That Tune1977TV Series
Stumpers!1976TV Series
50 Grand Slam1976TV Series
Blank Check1975TV Series
Three for the Money1975TV Series
Name That Tune1974/ITV Series
Celebrity Sweepstakes1974TV Series
Sale of the Century1969TV Series

Art Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Sale of the Century1969TV Series set designer

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1993Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic DesignSupermarket Sweep (1990)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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