Grub Street Productions
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Angell in 2000
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| Born |
David Lawrence Angell April 10, 1946 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | September 11, 2001 (aged 55) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Terrorist engineered crash of American Airlines Flight 11 |
| Residence | Chatham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Providence College |
| Occupation | Television producer |
| Home town | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Television |
Cheers (producer) Frasier (producer) Wings (producer) |
| Spouse(s) | Lynn Edwards (1971 – September 11, 2001; their deaths) |
| Parent(s) | Henry and Mae (née Cooney) Angell |
| Awards | 24 Emmy Awards |
David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was an American producer of sitcoms. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier. Angell and his wife Lynn both died heading home from their vacation in Cape Cod aboard American Airlines Flight 11. This was the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.
Angell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Henry and Mae (née Cooney) Angell. He received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Providence College. He married Lynn Angell on August 14, 1971. Soon after Angell entered the U.S. Army upon graduation and served at the Pentagon until 1972. He then moved to Boston and worked as a methods analyst at an engineering company and later at an insurance firm in Rhode Island. His brother, the late Most Rev. Kenneth Angell, was a Roman Catholic prelate and former Bishop of Burlington, Vermont.
Angell moved to Los Angeles in 1977. His first script was sold to the producers of the Annie Flynn series. Five years later, he sold his second script to Archie Bunker's Place. In 1983, he joined Cheers as a staff writer. In 1985, Angell joined forces with Peter Casey and David Lee as Cheers supervising producers/writers. The trio received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won 24 Emmy Awards, including the above-mentioned for Frasier, as well as an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for Cheers, in 1989, which Angell, Casey, Lee and the series' other producers shared, and Outstanding Writing/Comedy Emmy for Cheers, which Angell received in 1984. After working together as producers on Cheers, Angell, Casey and Lee formed Grub Street Productions. In 1990, they created and executive-produced the comedy series Wings.
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