Emmy-winning TV executive Peter Baldwin dead

TV executive and actor Peter Baldwin is no more. He was 86. Baldwin died on Nov 19 in Pebble Beach, California

TV executive and actor Peter Baldwin is no more. He was 86. Baldwin died on Nov 19 in Pebble Beach, California, reports  variety.com. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for directing ‘The Wonder Years’ and a Cable ACE Award for ‘Dream On’. His genocide was announced on a Facebook pages of his daughter Eleonora Baldwin and his son Drew Baldwin.

Born in Winnetka, Illinois, Baldwin was detected by a Hollywood talent director in his comparison year during Stanford. He became one of Paramount’s ‘Golden Circle of Newcomers’ and seemed in films including ‘Stalag 17′, ‘Little Boy Lost’ and Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘The Ten Commandments’. He served 3 years in a Navy and returned to Paramount, where he seemed in ‘The Tin Star’ and ‘Teacher’s Pet’ with Clark Gable and Doris Day.

After furloughed with Julie Harris in ‘The Warm Peninsula’ play, Baldwin changed to Italy. In 1964, he won initial esteem during a Venice Film Festival for ‘Some Sort of Cage’, a docudrama about Synanon House, that he wrote, constructed and directed. He went on to approach hundreds of episodes of renouned shows including ‘The Andy Griffith Show’, ‘The Partridge Family’, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’, ‘The Brady Bunch’, ‘Sanford and Son’, ‘The Bob Newhart Show’, ‘Happy Days’, ‘Chico and a Man’, ‘The Love Boat’, ‘Family Ties’, ‘ALF’, ‘Full House’, ‘WKRP In Cincinnati’, ‘Sabrina, The Teenage Witch’ and ‘Even Stevens.’

He also destined comedy underline film ‘Meet Wally Sparks’ starring Rodney Dangerfield and constructed a HBO film ‘As Summers Die’ starring Bette Davis, Jamie Leigh Curtis, and Scott Glenn. After timid to Pebble Beach, he served on a house of a Pacific Repertory Theater in Carmel-By-The-Sea. He is survived by his wife, Terry, son, daughters Amy Anderson and Eleonora, 5 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren.

 

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