Born on this day – Tom Lehrer:

Tom Lehrer

Composer

Actor

April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025

Credits:

Books:

The Tom Lehrer Song Book (1954); Tom Lehrer's Second Song Book (1972); Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer: With Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle (1981).

Albums:

An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer (1959); An Evening With the Infinite Genius of Tom Lehrer (2019); Be Prepared (2013); Entertaining (2009); Evenings Wasted With Tom Lehrer (2010); I Hold Your Hand in Mine (2013); I Wanna Go Back to Dixie (2008); In Concert (1960); Kings of Comedy Presents Tom Lehrer and George Formby (2015); More of Tom Lehrer (1959); Presenting Tom Lehrer (1953); Revisited (1960); Revisited Remastered (2013); Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer (1997); Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953); Songs By Tom Lehrer (Remastering 2013) (2013); That Was the Year That Was (1965); The Best & Worst of Tom Lehrer (2019); The Conducted Tom Lehrer (2023); The Elements (2010); The Remains of Tom Lehrer (2000); The Rest of Tom Lehrer (2010); The Songs of Tom Lehrer (2017); The Tom Lehrer Collection (2010); The Tom Lehrer Collection: 1953–60 (2015); The Very Best Of (2011); The Very Best of Tom Lehrer (2008); Tom Foolery (2012); Tom Lehrer Discovers Australia (and Vice Versa) (1960); Tom Lehrer Live on Stage (2017).

Movies and television:

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for A Living Planet (2012); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House (1966); A Gathering of Eagles (1963); Advent Comedy Calendar 2020 by We Are Thomasse (2020); Annette (2021); Better Call Saul (2018); Boys State (2020); BP Super Show (1960); Comedy Songs: The Pop Years (2008); Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary (1991); Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015); Flitter, Flutter-Thud (2007); For All Mankind (2019); Gilmore Girls (2006); Heroes of Comedy (2000); Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (1998); How to Prevent a Nuclear War (1987); I Hold Your Hand in Mine (2022); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Marty Back Together Again (1974); Nacha (1977); NCIS (2007); Nova ScienceNow (2006); Oj - är det redan fredag? (1970); Parkinson (1980); Pollution (1967); Porträtt av en motvillig herre (2008); Romansinfrabelic Break Fast (2024); That Was the Week That Was (1963–1985); The Big Bang Theory (2010); The Cure (2011); The Electric Company (1971–1977); The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits (2006); The Frost Report (1966); The Gateway Bug (2017); The Life and Times of Death (2019); The Life and Times of Death: Prologue (2018); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1967); The Mike Douglas Show (1966); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The Weekend Starts Here (1970–1971); Timeshift (2008); Today (1966); We Drive Econo (2020).