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Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as ''All in the Family'', ''Sanford and Son'', ''One Day at a Time'', ''The Jeffersons'', ''Good Times'', and ''Maude''. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes. == Early life == Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Jeanette (née Seicol) and Herman Lear, a traveling salesman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KWMR-HVX )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZF8-DPK )〕 He has a younger sister, Claire Brown. Lear grew up in a Jewish home and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. His mother was born in Kirovohrad in Kirovohrad Oblast in the Ukraine,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111690930 )〕 while his father was born in Connecticut, to Russian-born parents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XQR5-HR5 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Herman_Lear_and_Jeanette_Seicol_(1) )〕 When Lear was 9 years old, his father went to prison for selling fake bonds. Lear thought of his father as a "rascal" and said that the character of Archie Bunker was in part inspired by his father, while the character of Edith Bunker was in part inspired by his mother.〔 Lear graduated from Weaver High School in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1940〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/110472%7C118487/Norman-Lear/ )〕 and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces. After the Pearl Harbor attack, during World War II, Lear enlisted in September 1942,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8LF-8H6 )〕 serving in the Mediterranean Theater as a radio operator/gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) of the Fifteenth Air Force,〔 where Lear said they bombed Germany.〔 He flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945. He and his fellow World War II crew members are featured in the book "Crew Umbriago" by Daniel P. Carroll (tail gunner), and also in another book: ''772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories'' by Turner Publishing and Co. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman Lear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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