Ellen Deutsch(I)
- Production Department
- Script and Continuity Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ellen was born in New York City. She graduated from George Washington
High School and went on to Franklin Pierce College, in New Hampshire,
for only one year. She left college and returned to New York with the
knowledge that she needed to be around creative people. In 1973 she
landed her first job at NBC, New York working for various Unit Managers
doing game shows, Miss America Pageants, and the SkyLab Mission. From
there she spent four years as a researcher on The Tomorrow Show with
Tom Snyder. In 1976 the show moved back to NBC-Burbank and Ellen
followed the crew out to Los Angeles. Shortly after arriving, Joel
Tator, the Producer and Director of The Tomorrow Show, was launching
"Two On The Town" the first magazine show at KNXT with Connie Chung and
Steve Edwards. He took Ellen with him as a Researcher. In 1980 she
began her career in sitcoms as a Writers Assistant on "Too Close For
Comfort" with Ted Knight. Soon after that series she found herself
working for Norman Lear on "Diff'Rent Strokes" and "The Jeffersons."
She learned the ropes and knew that Script Supervising was her calling.
It was while working at Witt-Thomas-Harris on "The Golden Girls" that
she transitioned into that position when Jim Drake took her to do a new
sitcom called "Boys Will Be Boys" with a young Matthew Perry. She has
been working as a Script Supervisor ever since.
