Jay Lawrence (born Jay Storch; April 24, 1924 â€" June 18, 1987) was
an American stand up comedian, TV and film actor and voice over actor,
and the younger brother of stand-up comedian and television
sitcom/voice over actor Larry Storch.Lawrence was born in New York
City to Alfred Storch, a realtor, and his wife, Sally (née Kupperman)
Storch, a telephone operator. He and his brother Larry attended the
same school as comedian and actor Don Adams, who remained lifelong
friends with him and Storch.Lawrence first got his start in show
business alongside his more famous brother Larry as a stand-up comic
in New York City in 1940 while in his teens. A well in demand
television actor in Hollywood, Lawrence's acting career spanned from
1950 to 1979, and he would appear in both dramatic, variety show and
sitcom projects such as The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), the original
TV Dragnet program in 2 appearances in 1955 and 1959, Get Smart
(1968), and Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In the early 1960s, he fronted for
and performed at a then-popular New York nightclub (The Crystal Room)
on East 54th Street in Manhattan.This is not the Lawrence who also
worked as a disc jockey at [|KYW-AM]WKYC] in Cleveland, Ohio (as "The
Jay Bird").
an American stand up comedian, TV and film actor and voice over actor,
and the younger brother of stand-up comedian and television
sitcom/voice over actor Larry Storch.Lawrence was born in New York
City to Alfred Storch, a realtor, and his wife, Sally (née Kupperman)
Storch, a telephone operator. He and his brother Larry attended the
same school as comedian and actor Don Adams, who remained lifelong
friends with him and Storch.Lawrence first got his start in show
business alongside his more famous brother Larry as a stand-up comic
in New York City in 1940 while in his teens. A well in demand
television actor in Hollywood, Lawrence's acting career spanned from
1950 to 1979, and he would appear in both dramatic, variety show and
sitcom projects such as The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), the original
TV Dragnet program in 2 appearances in 1955 and 1959, Get Smart
(1968), and Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In the early 1960s, he fronted for
and performed at a then-popular New York nightclub (The Crystal Room)
on East 54th Street in Manhattan.This is not the Lawrence who also
worked as a disc jockey at [|KYW-AM]WKYC] in Cleveland, Ohio (as "The
Jay Bird").
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