Tony Webster, 64; Emmy Winner for Several TV Comedy Classics

Tony Webster, whose writing credits date to such early television triumphs as “Your Show of Shows” and who captured three Emmy awards in a career that extended over three decades, died June 27 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles.

He was 64 and in addition to the consecutive Emmys he and several other writers shared in 1955, ’56 and ’57 for “The Phil Silvers Show” was nominated three other times: In 1961 for “Car 54, Where Are You?,” in 1963 for “That Was the Week That Was” and in 1970 for a “Kraft Music Hall” special called “The Kopycats Kopy TV.”

Over the years he contributed several episodes to “Loveboat,” the Jonathan Winters, Red Skelton and Steve Lawrence variety programs and in 1961 won a Writers Guild script award for an Art Carney special titled “Call Me Back.”

He began in the industry in New York as a writer for the Bob and Ray radio series and then moved to television with the Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca series “Your Show of Shows,” where the other writers included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbert and Mel Tolkin.

While still in New York he wrote a play, “The Greatest Man Alive” and continued to write for the theater after moving to Los Angeles.

Survivors include his mother, Antoinette Crane, his daughter, Kate Effinger, and a grandson.

A memorial service was scheduled Friday at 11 a.m. at Theatre West at 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. in Los Angeles. In lieu of flowers, contributions were asked for the American Cancer Society.