Biography

Jim Carlson was born on August 29, 1932 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. He was a writer, known for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967), Battlestar Galactica (1978) and The Bionic Woman (1976). He died on August 25, 2007 in Castle Rock, Colorado, USA.

Children: Kathy, Mark and Jeff.

Still actively working on TV at the time of his death, he was also to have been a faculty member at the Rock-Solid Writing writer's conference in Castle Rock, Colorado.

Comedian Morey Amsterdam was Carlson's mentor and helped him get into the comedy business.

Had recently been in the hospital for heart problems, but had a pacemaker implanted just a month before his death.

A comedy for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967), one of his best one-liners was a simple sketch between the gruff-voiced dirty old man Tyrone (Arte Johnson), who asks the homely spinster Gladys Ormpby (Ruth Buzzi), "Do you believe in the hereafter?" "Yes," she says. To which he leeringly replies, "Then you know what I'm here after." Gladys then proceeds to bop Tyrone over the head with her handbag.