Tucker Wiard, who won five Emmys as a TV editor behind landmark comedy series including The Carol Burnett Show and the entire run of Murphy Brown, died August 28 in Los Angeles from complications due to heart failure, his family said.
He was 80.Born in Detroit in 1941 and raised in Lansing, MI, Wiard attended Michigan State where his major was Radio/Television.
In 1962 he joined the Army where he designed and built the studio and remote videotape department at Fort Benning in Georgia.Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo GalleryWiard moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and worked in the videotape department at CBS; his first video tape editor credits came on the network’s The Red Skelton Hour the next year.
He followed that with credits on Norman Lear’s All in the Family and Good Times before joining The Carol Burnett Show. He was editor on 48 episodes of the show’s run, per IMDb, and won his first Emmy in 1978 for the comedy’s series finale.
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