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- Birth nameAlbert Brodax
- Al Brodax was born on February 14, 1926 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Yellow Submarine (1968), Cool McCool (1966) and Beetle Bailey (1963). He was married to Joan Greenberg. He died on November 24, 2016 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- SpouseJoan Greenberg(1951 - November 2016) (his death, 3 children)
- In later years, he was a consultant for Marvel Comics and Computer Graphics Laboratories.
- He started out in the mail room of the William Morris Agency in New York and eventually became a TV writer and producer. He also helped produce a Broadway adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's book "Winesburg, Ohio" in 1958.
- He enlisted in the Army in 1943 and served in WWII as a medic. He was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge, and was awarded a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and a Combat Medical Badge. After the war, he studied English literature at the University of Wisconsin, and received a bachelor's degree in 1948.
- In the 1960s, he ran the motion picture and television division of King Features Syndicate.
- His father was a coat manufacturer; his mother, a homemaker. He grew up in Washington Heights and Brooklyn.
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