Early Life
Alan Pottasch was born on August 13, 1927 on Long Island in New York. He grew up in New York City. Pottasch enlisted at served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Pottasch enrolled at Pennsylvania State University following World War II. He graduated from Penn State in 1949 with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing. Pottasch went to a directors school and went on to work at a television station in Dallas, Texas and as a producer-director at ABC-TV.
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