George Lerner

George Lerner (1922-1995) was an American toy inventor who invented the toy Mr Potato Head.
Lerner was born in New York in 1922 to a Jewish family. In 1949 a rainy day kept his children indoors and they were bored. He then got some vegetables and plastic parts and created Mr. Potato Head, to stop his children from being bored. His children loved the toy. In 1949 World War 2 food rations where still in people's minds, Lerner had a hard time selling Mr. Potato Head, since people thought it was wasteful. He then found a cereal company that bought his idea, He then found Hasbro which offered a better deal and bought back his invention and sold it to them. 
Lerner would later say in an interview about Mr. Potato Head:
In 1964 and 1975 Lerner's original designs got redesigned. He died in 1995 at the age of 73. Mr. Potato Head would go on to appear in all 4 Toy Story movies, a game called ''Mr. Potato Head Saves Veggie Valley'' on the Apple Pipin and a few computer releases, a tv series, and the web series Dr Left Hand's Group Therapy as the character 1983 Mr Potato Head, who would have a smoking addiction, and would smoke his Tobacco Pipe.