Celebrity Death: TV giant Woody Fraser dies aged 90

prolific american television Producer Woody Fraser dies. He is 90 years old.

he passed away Saturday (Sunday in Australia), type This was confirmed by his daughter Stacey.

The TV professional is credited with launching the mike douglas show and the popular Morning in America information breakfast plan good morning america.

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Fraser's longtime collaborator and producer EV Di Massa Jr. accepted Facebook pay tribute.

“My mentor and true production genius Woody Fraser has passed away,” Massa wrote alongside the pair.

“So many memories. Here we are at the Emmys accepting the Mike Douglas Lifetime Award…May God bless him until our next production meeting in heaven.”

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Other former colleagues of Fraser shared their own tributes in the comments section.

“I worked with Woody on two shows on Nickelodeon in the mid-1980s and it was a pleasure working for him. RIP Woody!” one wrote.

“Woody was the host of the NBC show I ran in 1977 called ” America alive. He was a legend with a great sense of humor and fun,” wrote another.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who served with Frazier, also started social media Share a tribute.

“Woody Fraser is my EP @foxnews TV show and television pioneer,” he wrote.

“He created a lot of TV shows for 7 years. He gave Roger Ailes his first TV job. I loved the guy. He was my TV mentor. He died this weekend at the age of 90. He was A legendary figure.”

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Throughout his career, Fraser became a well-known figure in the entertainment industry, with specific expertise in talk shows, news, and variety shows.

His career in Hollywood spanned more than 60 years, during which time he worked on a number of high-profile projects.

Some of these include academic credits the dick cavitt show, The Richard Simmons Show, Family Challenge, Unbelievable, The Family Show etc. 

Fraser has accumulated 35 IMDB credits during his career, most of which were for executive producer roles.

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His television career began more than sixty years ago in 1960 as a director at NBC. That same year he met Mike Douglas, who we would go on to produce the mike douglas show and. The show became one of the most successful and longest-running talk shows in television history.

According to his online bio, from 1966 to 1973, “Fraser was responsible for an unprecedented 32 and a half hours of television programming per week.”

The program includes The Mike Douglas Show, The Dick Cavett Show, The Della Reese Show, The Bill Russell Show and children talk All broadcast simultaneously.

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It was during this period that he also wrote and produced Virginia Graham Show and The Steve Allen Show.

In recent years he has worked on television shows McEnroe and Huckabee. He also supported his late wife Noreen Fraser stand up 2 cancer The telethon united multiple US networks to raise more than $100 million for cancer research.

Fraser is survived by eight children and three grandchildren.

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