Tucker Wiard was an American television editor. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category of Outstanding Picture Editing.
Wiard attended Michigan State University where he majored in Radio/Television. He went off to join the Army in 1962, where he designed and built the studio and remote videotape department at Fort Benning in Georgia.
Wiard died in August 2022, of complications from heart failure in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 80.
Tucker Wiard Obituary
Tucker Wiard, who served as editor for TV series including “Murphy Brown,” “The Carol Burnett Show” and “The Scarlet Letter,” died on Aug 28 in Los Angeles after complications from heart failure. He was 80.
Throughout Wiard’s decades-long career, he won five primetime Emmys for editing. Wiard won for his work in editing the final episode of “The Carol Burnett Show” at CBS in 1978, the four-episode WGBH series “The Scarlet Letter” in 1979, and the television special “American Bandstand’s 30th Anniversary Special” in 1982.
Two episodes of “Murphy Brown”, “Respect” and “On Another Plane” also won Wiard Primetime Emmys. He has been nominated a total of 11 times.
Among his other TV editing credits were “All in the Family,” “Good Times,” “Detective School,” “Steambath,” “Alice,” “Charles in Charge” and “Nikki.”