Trivia

Discovered stand up comic Woody Allen in the Catskills, and got him his first writing job on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1950).

Kamen, long confirmed a bachelor, married Margot Bankoff, a professor of Philosophy at City College on April 8th 1969.

Before his comedy career, Kamen played the French Horn with the Metropolitan Opera.

While performing in the Catskills, Kamen discovered Woody Allen and got him a job writing for Sid Caesar.

Kamen won a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music.

In 1964, Kamen played Lev Kamenev opposite Peter Falk (Stalin) & Luther Adler (Lenin) in Paddy Chayefsky's The Passion Of Josef D. on Broadway.