Biography

Jay Sandrich was born on February 24, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), The Cosby Show (1984) and Soap (1977). He was married to Linda Green Silverstein and Nina Kramer. He died on September 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

[on working on "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" in 1957 ] I was so young and caught in the middle of America's favorite couple breaking up. Psychologically, I didn't know how to handle it because I was in the middle. They all were wonderful people but naturally there was tension.

I wasn't a creative person; I never was. I didn't feel a calling for directing. I'm not like a lot of young people today who have cameras and shoot films and know this is their love. [Early on] "I didn't know anything. What helped me in my career was, one, being able to read a script and two, casting. I never believed that an audience watching a comedy show should ever say, 'What an interesting angle!' If they're starting to notice the camera work, then they're missing the writing and the performances.