Burt Sugarman Biography

Burt Sugarman born January 4, 1937.Burt Sugarman is an American television producer best known for producing the 1970s game show Celebrity Sweepstakes, and The Richard Pryor Show.

Burt Sugarman also produced The Midnight Special and The Wizard of Odds in the 1970s.

Sugarman has also produced the motion pictures Kiss Me Goodbye, Extremities and Children of a Lesser God. Burt Sugarman was the executive producer of the film Crimes of the Heart in 1986 and television series The Newlywed Game 1988. Burt Sugarman was also part owner of Barris Industries (later known as the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company) before it was sold to Sony in 1989.

Personal life

Sugarman married Mary Hart in 1989; they have one son.Burt Sugarman had previously been married to the late actress Carol Wayne and was engaged to Ann-Margret in 1962.