Barney McNulty

Date of birth : 06/15/1923

Date of death : 12/17/2000

City of birth : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Barney McNulty is credited with producing the first cue cards for a national TV show in 1949. McNulty wrote out the first cue cards for The Ed Wynn Show (1949), one of the first national TV shows to originate in Hollywood, while working as an usher at the CBS studios in Columbia Square, Hollywood. He went on to form "Ad-Libs", a company that produced cue cards for such performers as Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles and many others.