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Feb 24, 2009 · Howard Zieff, a film and television commercial director, passed away in 2009 at 81. He was known for his comedic touch in movies and ads, and received an Oscar nomination for his work with Goldie Hawn.
Howard Zieff, a top advertising print photographer and TV commercial director in the 1960s and early ‘70s before tapping his flair for comedy as the director of movies including...
Feb 26, 2009 · Howard Zieff, known to fans of TV commercials as the auteur behind such classics as Alka Selzter’s “Mama mia, that’s a spicy meatball” commercial, has died at age 81. Zieff’s 1970 commercial...
Feb 25, 2009 · Howard Zieff, the commercial director and ad photographer who stuffed an actor with spicy meatballs in a memorable Alka-Seltzer spot and used an American Indian in print ads to convince people...
Legendary advertising photographer and celebrated commercial and feature film director Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin, My Girl) traces his unique career path with interviewer Richard Benjamin. Recorded late in Zieff’s life after Parkinson’s forced his retirement from filmmaking, his wife Ronda Gómez-Quiñones assists in the interview.
Feb 24, 2009 · Howard Zieff, a famed director of TV commercials in the 1960s who went on to specialize in Hollywood comedies, died Feb. 22 from complications due to Parkinson’s disease at Cedars-Sinai Medical...
Feb 25, 2009 · We note the passing of Howard Zieff, a key figure in the bold, funny, and heavily Jewish advertising revolution of the 1960s. Zieff directed the famous “Spicy Meatball” Alka-Seltzer commercial...
