Sydney Zelinka(1906-1981)

Started on radio as a comedy writer for 'Jack Oakie's College' in 1935. Over the next few years he contributed to other radio comedy, for stars like Jimmy Durante, Groucho Marx and Sid Caesar. Toured with the Marx Brothers in vaudeville in the 1940s, trying out gags later used in movies. He wrote the screenplays for the Marx Brothers films 'Copacabana' and 'A Night in Casablanca'. Shared an Emmy Award in 1957 (with A.J.Russell) for the script of an episode of 'Sergeant Bilko'. Back in New York in the early 50s, working on 'The Honeymooners'.