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Henry Enoch Sharp was born June 25, 1912 in Manhattan, New York City.

 

After serving in the war, Sharp found free-lance work illustrating pulp magazines produced by Ziff-Davis. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Mammoth Adventure, Mammoth Detective, Mammoth Mystery, and Mammoth Western.

 

Sharp also wrote two stories that were published in pulp magazines, "McDaniel In The Lion's Den" for Mammoth Detective (July 1946), and "Unfinished Business" for Fantastic Adventures (August 1948).

 

He also drew for their new line of comic books. The new editor was Herb Rogoff. His work appeared in Crime Comics, Horror Comics, Romance Comics, Sports Comics, Science Fantasy, G.I. Joe and Sky Pilot.

 

By 1953 the pulp magazine and comic book industries suffered hard times, due to lost readership, who had grown fascinated with television, and a widespread concern that uncensored comic books promoted juvenile delinquency. As the publishing industry shrank, most illustrators needed to find new sources of income.

 

In 1953 Sharp illustrated stories for the pulp magazine Other Worlds from Bell Publications. He also drew comics for the St. John Publishing Company. He drew Mystery In Space and Strange Adventures for DC Comics. These were his only works published outside of Ziff-Davis.

 

By 1954 his brother, Philip Sharp, had become a successful writer on The Sid Caesar Show. Philip Sharp went on to write teleplays for The Phil Silvers Show in 1956. In 1958 Philip Sharp was writing The Real McCoy's, and invited his brother to become a co-writer on that TV show. The two brothers again teamed up on scripts for The Gale Storm Show (1958), The Ann Southern Show (1959), and The Donna Reed Show (1959-1961).

 

In 1958 Sharp closed his art studio and left NYC and moved to California, where he focused his creative skills on writing scripts and drawing storyboards for the television industry.

The subsequent career of Henry Sharp in Los Angeles should not be confused with the popular stage and screen actor, Henry Sharp (1889-1964), or the renowned Hollywood cameraman, Henry Sharp (1892-1966). To distinguish himself from these two established professionals, he used the name "Henry E. Sharp."

 

His older brother, Philip Sharp, continued to have a successful career as a special "-script doctor" for CBS Television. He wrote for The Patty Duke Show (1964), Hogan's Heroes (1968-1971), Bewitched (1970-1972), The Doris Day Show (1971-1972), Maude (1975-1976), and All In The Family (1978-1979).

 

Sharp went on to write for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1962), The Andy Griffith Show (1963), McHale's Navy (1964), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Petticoat Junction (1964), The Addams Family (1965), The Wild, Wild West (1966-1968), Mission Impossible (1970-1971), and Bewitched (1970-1972).

 

 

Sharp also wrote scripts for TV cartoon programs, including The Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan (1972), Super Friends (1973), and Valley Of The Dinosaurs (1974).

 

Sharp married and had three children. He retired in 1980, and as of 2016, was still living, aged one-hundred-and-five-years-old.

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