{{short description|American film producer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Ted Bergmann | image = | caption = | birth_name = Theodore Gerard Bergmann | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|9|12|mf=y}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|3|2|1920|9|12}} | death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | occupation = TV, radio and film screenwriter, producer, and network and advertising executive | years_active = 1941–1998 | spouse = | children = }}
'''Theodore Gerard Bergmann''' (September 12, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was an American television and radio producer, screenwriter, announcer, network and advertising executive. He worked for the Dumont Television Network in the 1940s and 1950s. He worked as producer and production manager for several other TV series from the 1970s through the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://subtitlebox.org/pt/person/ted-bergman-369080/bio/|title=Biografia de Ted Bergman|publisher=subtitleBox.org|accessdate=March 27, 2014}}</ref>
==Career== In early 1947, after responding to an ad in the New York Times, Bergmann landed a job at the Dumont Television Network, where he was hired as a time salesman at WABD Channel 5, the Du Mont station in New York. Despite his inexperience he was hired on the spot. The first advertising sale he ever made was to the Jay Day Dress Company who sponsored ''Birthday Party'', a children's daytime show, for $200 an episode. He was responsible for selling commercial advertising time to clients for such early Dumont TV shows such as ''The Original Amateur Hour'', ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers'', ''Cavalcade of Stars'', and ''Life Is Worth Living''. (He created the title for "Cavalcade of Stars"). Bergmann often had troubles finding advertisers for the network because the big television stars were being lured away from DuMont to the other networks.
Bergmann worked his way up through the company and finished as the managing director of the broadcast division until the network shut down. He was later offered a job to head the ABC network but declined. He remained good friends with creator of the DuMont Network, Allen DuMont, until DuMont died in 1965.<ref>Bergmann, Ted; Skutch, Ira (2002). ''The Du Mont Television Network: What Happened?: A Significant Episode in the History of Broadcasting''. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press.</ref>
===Production work=== By 1976, Bergmann developed and was executive in charge of production for the ABC-TV sitcom ''Three's Company'', serving in that capacity during the series' eight-season run. He also would serve in the same capacity for its spinoff series ''The Ropers'' and ''Three's A Crowd''. He also would serve as the producer for the made-for-TV films ''Death Stalk'' (1970), ''Chelsea D.H.O.'' (1973) and ''The Good Ol' Boys'' in 1979.
==Later years and death== Bergmann retired from television in 1998 and resided in Southern California. He died after an unspecified surgery on March 2, 2014, aged 93.<ref>[https://variety.com/2014/tv/people-news/ted-bergmann-producer-who-brought-grammys-to-television-dies-at-93-1201128130/ "Ted Bergmann, Producer Who Brought Grammys to Television, Dies at 93", Associated Press.]</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0074867}} *{{emmytvlegends name|ted-bergmann}}
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