Paul Henning (September 16, 1911 – March 25, 2005) was an American producer and writer. Most famous for the successful sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was crucial in the development of several "rural" comedies for CBS.
Henning was born on a farm and grew up in Independence, Missouri. While working in a drugstore as a teenager, he met future President Harry S. Truman, who advised him to become a lawyer. Although he did attend the Kansas City Sc...
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Paul Henning (September 16, 1911 – March 25, 2005) was an American producer and writer. Most famous for the successful sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was crucial in the development of several "rural" comedies for CBS.
Henning was born on a farm and grew up in Independence, Missouri. While working in a drugstore as a teenager, he met future President Harry S. Truman, who advised him to become a lawyer. Although he did attend the Kansas City School of Law, his ambition was to be a singer on the radio. When the local radio station KMBZ(KMBC at the time) had no money for writers to create the "filler" between songs, he became a writer as well as a singer. Writing proved the more lucrative of the two and he abandoned singing, eventually writing for such series as Fibber McGee & Molly and the The Burns & Allen Show, and later such television series as The Real McCoys and The Andy Griffith Show. Henning was also the creator, writer and producer of The Bob Cummings Show, where he first...
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