A gifted comic performer whose dignified voice and appearance belied his skill for outrageous characters, Harvey Korman was an award-winning actor, writer and director who rose to national prominence on “The Carol Burnett Show” (CBS, 1967-1978). Korman was the perfect partner and foil for Burnett, a versatile chameleon who could keep up with her shifts from high drama to broad slapstick. Tall, well-spoken, and impeccably neat, he was best at playing the handsome stars of yesteryear in Burnett’s many movie spoofs, or men of wealth and power whose sense of self-importance was in desperate need
