Frasier, has died. He was 85.
Christopher died Tuesday in his sleep at his home in West Hollywood, his wife of more than 50 years, Dorothy, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
Christopher received Emmys for his design work for the Oscar shows in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1999, 2003, 2006 and 2008 and was nominated 10 other times for the telecast and also won trophies for NBC s
The Richard Pryor Show in 1978 and for NBC s
Frasier in 2004.
He received a lifetime achievement award from the Art Directors Guild in 2004 and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2017. Roy Christopher was a legendary designer and gentleman who consistently raised the bar for excellence in production design through his career and by mentoring the next generation of designers, ADG president Nelson Coates said. He was a major influencer on popular culture and the visual presentation of our industry to the world.
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Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat and Robert Redford as Bob Woodward in All the President s Men (1976).
It took a visit from friend Robert Redford to convince the legendary actor to take the role.
Hal Holbrook is known for several characters he played throughout his illustrious career, but one of the most iconic was at first hated by the award-winning actor.
The legendary Holbrook died on Jan. 23. He was 95.
During an interview he gave in 2018 with the Television Academy Foundation, Holbrook confessed that he was thoroughly unimpressed with his portion of the script for
All the President s Men and immediately turned the Alan J. Pakula-directed picture down.
Allan Burns
The Munsters and
The Mary Tyler Moore Show. As a story editor on
He & She, he received an Emmy Award for comedy writing (alongside his longtime writing partner Chris Hayward), and he also earned an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay for the film
A Little Romance.
But it was the animation industry that first captured Burns’s imagination, and indeed it was there that his career began. Hired by producer Jay Ward in the early 1960s, he was closely involved with series including
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Dudley Do-Right, and
George of the Jungle. He also created Cap’n Crunch, the cereal mascot and star of countless animated commercials.
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Allan Burns, a television producer and screenwriter best known for co-creating and cowriting for the television sitcoms The Munsters, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Rhoda, died Saturday at home. He was 85 and no details were immediately available on the cause of death.
Dan Pasternack, a producer and programming executive and longtime friend of the family, said Burns was a mentor to many. As much of a legend as he was, and as diverse of a career as he enjoyed, the most remarkable thing about Allan Burns was how kind he was to so many people.