Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and film and television producer who has produced, written, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear is known for many popular 1970s sitcoms, including All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, and Good Times.

Meet Lear and Jeanette Seicol

Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Jeanette and Hyman “Herman” Lear, a traveling salesman. Herman Lear is the father of Norman Lear. Herman was a traveling salesman. Lear grew up in a Jewish household in Connecticut and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

Jeanette Seicol is the mother of Norman Lear. However, Lear has said the moment which inspired his lifetime of advocacy was another event that he experienced at the age of nine when he first came across infamous anti-semitic Catholic radio priest Father Charles Coughlin while tinkering with his crystal radio set.