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Acclaimed American tv producer and director Woody Fraser, identified for creating “Good Morning America” amongst numerous different iconic packages, has handed away on the age of 90.
Warm phrases for Fraser poured in after his daughter Stacy confirmed to Variety that he had died on Saturday.
“Woody Fraser was EP of my @FoxNews TV present & a TV pioneer. He was creator of many TV reveals over 7 a long time,” former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee wrote on X.
Huckabee, calling the late producer a “legend,” additionally famous that Fraser served as his mentor on tv.
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Producer E.V. Di Massa Jr., Fraser’s longtime collaborator, additionally paid tribute on Facebook.
“My mentor and a real producing genius, Woody Fraser, handed. So many recollections. Here we’re accepting the Mike Douglas Lifetime Award on the Emmys,” Massa wrote, sharing an image with Fraser.
Fraser, throughout his intensive profession, was nominated for a plethora of Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on packages like “The Mike Douglas Show,” “The Richard Simmons Show,” “The Dick Cavett Show,” “What Would You Do?” “The Family Challenge” and “Good Morning America.”
He received the Emmy for “The Richard Simmons Show” in 1982 alongside his spouse Noreen Fraser, who served as a producer on the present on the time. Noreen handed away following a battle with breast most cancers in 2017.
Fraser is credited with serving to set up “Good Morning America” as a formidable morning leisure program, serving because the present’s first government producer.
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Woody Fraser, Madeline Fraser and Noreen Fraser attend the Stella & Dot and The Noreen Fraser Foundation Breast Cancer Awareness Trunk Show Hosted by Noreen Fraser and Co-Hosts Debbie Matenopoulos, Samantha Harris and Katherine Schwarzenegger on October 5, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. ((Photo by Araya Diaz/Getty Images for Stella & Dot))
He spent 50 years working in Hollywood, starting his profession as a director for NBC in 1960. It was the identical yr he labored with Mike Douglas to assist create his self-titled present, which grew to become one of the vital profitable and long-running discuss reveals within the leisure business.
From 1966 to 1973, Fraser oversaw 32.5 hours of programming every week — a file on the time.
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Toward the tail finish of his profession, Fraser ran CNBC’s “McEnroe” and Fox News’ “Huckabee.”
Fraser is survived by eight youngsters and three grandchildren. His household stated extra particulars about his dying will come at a later date.
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