Spoiler : Born on a hog farm near Independence, Missouri 9/16/1911; died 3/25/2005 of natural causes at Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, California. He had suffered a series of minor strokes in recent years. Married to radio actress and writer Ruth Barth (1939-2002 her death). Father of actress Laura Henning, who he shares the same birthday. Graduated from William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri, the same school former US President Harry S. Truman graduated from in 1901. While working as a soda jerk, Truman was a regular customer that advised Henning to go to law school. He attended night classes at Kansas City School of Law, but dropped out after two years to begin an entertainment career as a singer on radio station KMBC-Kansas City (1933-1937). While at KMBC, he acted in the station's daytime drama, Happy Hollow that was broadcast on CBS-Radio with his future wife, Ruth Barth playing his wife on the program. Henning and Barth moved to Chicago in 1937, to pursue careers in network radio.

Spoiler : Henning was a writer for radio programs in Chicago (1937-1938), from 1938 in Los Angeles including The Fibber McGee and Molly Show on NBC (1937-1939); The Joe E. Brown Show on CBS (1939); The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC (1940-1941); Burns And Allen on NBC and CBS (1942-1952); A Day In The Life Of Dennis Day on NBC (1952).

Spoiler : Producer of The Dennis Day Show on NBC-TV (1952-1954). Writer for television shows including The Burns And Allen Show on CBS (1950-1958); The Ray Bolger Show on ABC (1953-1955); episodes of The Real McCoys on ABC and CBS (1957-1963); The Andy Griffith Show on CBS (1960-1968). Creator of The Bob Cummings Show (Love That Bob) on the NBC and CBS Television Networks (1955- 1959). Creator, producer and writer for The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS-TV (1962-1971);

Spoiler : Petticoat Junction on CBS-TV (1963-1970). Producer of Green Acres on CBS-TV (1965). Executive producer of Bearcats! on CBS-TV (1971). Writer for the made-for-television movie, The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981).

Spoiler : In 1996, Henning received the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television from the Writer's Guild of America, West, the guild's highest award for television writing. In the 1960s, Henning and his wife bought some 400 acres of land near Branson, Missouri which is now called the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation area, and the Ruth and Paul Henning State Forest.