It's funny..because he dies at the end!"--Darryl Warren.
Lynn Haldren was the carpet selling king of commercials in Chicago in the seventies and eighties, so much so that that original local Chicago phone number is still stuck in millions of brains across the country. As head of Haldren Creative, he wrote, directed, and starred as The Empire Carpet Man. Haldren also wrote the tune used to accompany the singing of the company's phone number, and recorded the jingle with an a cappella group, The Fabulous 40s. The day we shot this in his house in Evanston, there were three other commercials being shot there at the same time: one on the stairs, one in the kitchen and one in the dining room. I was out on the porch. I remember him asking me to do my own makeup, but I'm pretty sure he hired a makeup artist as I don't remember doing the bald cap. They would shoot a while on the stairs, then turn the camera around and get another shot of me getting older from time to time. all afternoon.
Hauldron died on April 26, 2011, in Evanston, Illinois, at the age of 89, twenty five days after his eighty ninth birthday.
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