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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. 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." Is a brother of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1999 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C. A veteran of World War II who flew missions over Italy.