Joseph Behar, Longtime ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘General Hospital’ Director, Dies at 94

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Joseph Behar, Longtime ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘General Hospital’ Director, Dies at 94

The five-time Daytime Emmy winner also worked with Ernie Kovacs in Philadelphia and for 14 years on 'Let's Make a Deal.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Joseph Behar, the five-time Daytime Emmy-winning director who had long stints on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and General Hospital and on the game show Let’s Make a Deal, has died. He was 94.

Behar, who also helmed TV programs featuring Ernie Kovacs when the famed comedian was first starting out, died June 26 at his home in Manhattan Beach, his wife, Carolyn, told The Hollywood Reporter.



Behar spent 22 years as a director on NBC’s Days of Our Lives — beginning with the show’s first broadcast in November 1965 — and from 1963-77 also called the shots for the Monty Hall-hosted Let’s Make a Deal, including the pilot.

 

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He was also the director for The Ernie Kovacs Show at various times.

 

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He was also married to Joy Behar, who because of the first name similarity, I assumed was his daughter and then thought he was robbing the cradle, until finding out how old she is. She'll be 79 in October!