Allen Funt
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"Allen Albert Funt" was an American television producer, television director/director, screenwriting/writer and television personality best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a television series of specials. Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on Columbia Broadcasting System/CBS.

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No, nobody ever really turned the tables on me.

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

That's how it began. In those days, we had to lug around these enormous recorders and camera equipment and find a place to conceal them.