Los Angeles, May 27 -- Howard Storm, the former stand-up comic who became one of television's most accomplished sitcom directors, helming beloved series such as Rhoda, Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley and Valerie, died on Tuesday. He was 94.

Storm died of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, his son Anthony Storm told The Hollywood Reporter.

A member of Lucille Ball's Desilu Workshop in the late 1950s, the native New Yorker and son of a vaudevillian learned a lot about filmmaking from Woody Allen -- another stand-up turned director -- when he worked alongside him on Bananas (1971) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (1972).

Allen also acted in those films, of course, and after a scene that i...