TV producer Roger Gimbel dies at 86
LOS ANGELES - Emmy Award-winning TV producer Roger Gimbel, who worked Bing Crosby, Sophia Loren and other stars, has died. He was 86.
LOS ANGELES - Emmy Award-winning TV producer Roger Gimbel, who worked Bing Crosby, Sophia Loren and other stars, has died. He was 86.
Gimbel died on Tuesday of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Gimbel's wife, actress Jennifer Warren, was at his side.
Gimbel, a Philadelphia native, was a member of the Gimbels department-store family.
Gimbel's 500-plus productions received 18 Emmys, including one for 1973's "A War of Children," about Irish and Protestant friends engulfed by strife in Belfast.
He worked on TV movies including "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" and "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom."
Besides his wife, Roger Gimbel's survivors include four children.