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.
Heat phrases for Fraser poured in after his daughter Stacy confirmed to Selection 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 Woody Fraser pays tribute to Mike Douglas onstage in the course of the thirty fourth Annual Daytime Artistic Arts & Leisure Emmy Awards held on the Hollywood & Highland Grand Ballroom on June 14, 2007 in Hollywood, California. ((Picture by Frazer Harrison/Getty Photos))
Producer E.V. Di Massa Jr., Fraser’s longtime collaborator, additionally paid tribute on Fb.
“My mentor and a real producing genius, Woody Fraser, handed. So many recollections. Right 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 Present,” “The Richard Simmons Present,” “The Dick Cavett Present,” “What Would You Do?” “The Household Problem” and “Good Morning America.”
He gained the Emmy for “The Richard Simmons Present” 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 govt producer.
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Woody Fraser, Madeline Fraser and Noreen Fraser attend the Stella & Dot and The Noreen Fraser Basis Breast Most cancers Consciousness Trunk Present Hosted by Noreen Fraser and Co-Hosts Debbie Matenopoulos, Samantha Harris and Katherine Schwarzenegger on October 5, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. ((Picture by Araya Diaz/Getty Photos for Stella & Dot))
He spent 50 years working in Hollywood, starting his profession as a director for NBC in 1960. It was the identical 12 months he labored with Mike Douglas to assist create his self-titled present, which grew to become probably the most profitable and long-running discuss reveals within the leisure business.
From 1966 to 1973, Fraser oversaw 32.5 hours of programming per week — a document on the time.
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Towards the tail finish of his profession, Fraser ran CNBC’s “McEnroe” and Fox Information’ “Huckabee.”
Fraser is survived by eight kids and three grandchildren. His household mentioned extra particulars about his dying will come at a later date.Â
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