Stand-Up Comic, ‘Mork & Mindy’ Director Was 94
Howard Storm, who ditched a career as a stand-up comic to become a director who called the shots for such sitcoms as Rhoda, Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley and Valerie, died Tuesday. He was 94. Storm died of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, his son Anthony Storm told The Hollywood Reporter. A member of Lucille Ball‘s Desilu Workshop in the late 1950s, the native New Yorker and son of a vaudevillian learned a lot about filmmaking from Woody Allen — another stand-up turned director — when he worked alongside him on Bananas (1971) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (1972). Allen also acted in those films, of course, and after a scene that included him was shot, “the cinematographer would say, ‘Good for me, Woody,’ and the sound man would say, ‘Good for me,’ but there was no director to say anything,” Storm recalled in a 2008 conversation for the Television Academy Foundation website The Interviews. “So [he and Allen] would make eye …
