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In 1959 Lear produced a pilot for a situation comedy called "Band of Gold" in which James Franciscus and Suzanne Pleshette played a different couple each week. The program was considered too "experimental" and was never broadcast. Long a renowned supporter of liberal political causes, he changed his party registration to Republican in 1980 and endorsed John Anderson for President, after calling the administration of Jimmy Carter a "complete disaster." Supposedly based Archie Bunker, at least in part, on his own father. The elder Lear was a salesman and, by all accounts, a vulgar, reactionary bigot who was constantly railing against women and minorities. He consistantly referred to Afro-Americans as "schwartzes," a Yiddish-American term with racially perjoritive connotations, and once called young Norman "the laziest white kid I ever knew." In 1980, he founded a public interest group "People For The American Way" which is a liberal group. Is a brother of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Acted as a consultant for Trey Parker and Matt Shone's South Park. He assisted on Cancelled and I'm A Little Bit Country. He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1999 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C. Godfather to actress Katey Sagal.