Burt Boyar

Burt Boyar
Born
Burton Anselm Boyar

(1927-11-30)November 30, 1927
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died(2018-04-04)April 4, 2018 (age 90)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Author, biographer, columnist, actor
Years active1939–2018
SpouseJane Boyar (deceased)
Websitewww.burtboyar.com

Burt Boyar (November 30, 1927 – April 4, 2018[1]) was a Broadway columnist,[2] voice actor, and author. He voiced the title character of Archie Andrews for NBC Radio in 1945 [3] and co-wrote Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. with wife Jane Boyar and Davis himself.

Boyar's work as a columnist was featured in The Morning Telegraph, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and TV Guide.[4] He reached out to Davis for an interview after Mr. Wonderful opened on Broadway in 1956.[5][6] They became close friends and after almost a year they began working on the best-selling memoir.[7] Later a follow-up book, Why Me?, was published in 1989.[2] Boyer also compiled a book of photographs taken by Davis, entitled Photo by Sammy Davis Jr, which was published in 2007.[8]

Boyer's collection of material relating to Sammy Davis Jr. can be found at the Library of Congress.[9]

  1. ^ "Burt Boyar Obituary (1927 - 2018) Los Angeles Times". Legacy.com.
  2. ^ a b David Hajdu (2009). Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. Da Capo Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-306-81833-2.
  3. ^ Dunning, John (19 March 1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  4. ^ New York Media, LLC (31 August 1970). "New York Magazine". New York. New York Media, LLC: 4–. ISSN 0028-7369.
  5. ^ Wil Haygood (28 May 2014). In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Junior. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-8041-7252-3.
  6. ^ "Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965)". Judd Brothers.
  7. ^ Boris Kachka (12 August 2014). Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Simon and Schuster. pp. 161–. ISBN 978-1-4516-9191-7.
  8. ^ Boyar, Burt (2007). Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. New York: Regan Books. ISBN 9780062273963.
  9. ^ "Library of Congress, Burt Boyar Collection" (PDF).