Broadway theatre producers

The list Broadway theatre producers includes Orson Welles, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mel Brooks, Fisher Stevens and Elia Kazan. The list consists of 51 members.

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Class of professional theater presented in New York City, United States

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Orson Welles

American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)

Overview: George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film. He is considered one ...

Date of birth: 6 May 1915

Date of death: 10 October 1985

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients 95T

Federal Theatre Project people 64T

Universal Pictures contract players 48T
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Fisher Stevens

American actor, director, producer and writer (born 1963)

Overview: Fisher Stevens (born Steven Fisher; November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben Jabituya in Short Circuit (renamed "Ben ...

Date of birth: 27 November 1963

Age: 60

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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21st-century American Jews 7,982T

Broadway theatre directors 42T

Broadway actors 482T
3.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

English musical theatre composer

Overview: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on ...

Date of birth: 22 March 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Madeleine Gurdon (Married)

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British male songwriters 485T

English male film score composers 182T

Special Tony Award recipients 132T
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Mel Brooks

American actor, comedian and filmmaker (born 1926)

Overview: Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky, June 28, 1926) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began ...

Date of birth: 28 June 1926

Age: 98

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Male actors of Ukrainian descent 19T

Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

Comedy film directors 139T
5.

Elia Kazan

American film and theatre director (1909–2003)

Overview: Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou (Greek: Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου); September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New ...

Date of birth: 7 September 1909

Date of death: 28 September 2003

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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American anti-communists 244T

Broadway theatre directors 38T

Broadway actors 482T
6.

Thomas Mitchell

American actor and writer (1892-1962)

Overview: Thomas John Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American actor. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, Doc Boone in Stagecoach, Uncle ...

Date of birth: 11 July 1892

Date of death: 17 December 1962

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Broadway theatre directors 38T

Broadway actors 482T
7.

George M. Cohan

American, Writer

Overview: George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer.

Date of birth: 3 July 1878

Date of death: 5 December 1942

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Male actors from Providence, Rhode Island 38T

Members of The Lambs Club 91T

Male musical theatre composers 105T
8.

Oscar Hammerstein II

American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals (1895–1960)

Overview: Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in the musical theater for almost ...

Date of birth: 12 July 1895

Date of death: 23 August 1960

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Music Producer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

Oscar Hammerstein II 1T

Hammerstein family (show business) 8T
9.

Billy Rose

American businessman

Overview: Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg, September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was ...

Date of birth: 6 September 1899

Date of death: 10 February 1966

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 4' 11" (150 cm)

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Jewish American songwriters 301T

American Theater Hall of Fame inductees 561T

20th-century American musicians 6,126T
10.

Evan Todd

American actor and producer (born 1989)

Overview: Evan Todd (born February 25, 1989) is an American actor and producer.

Date of birth: 25 February 1989

Age: 35

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Broadway actors 482T

21st-century American male actors 5,370T

American male television actors 10,171T
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Harold Prince

American theatre producer and director

Overview: Harold Smith Prince (born Harold Smith; January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019), commonly known as Hal Prince, was an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1928

Date of death: 31 July 2019

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

Partner: Judith Chaplin (Dating)

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Broadway theatre directors 38T

2019 deaths 9,204T

2019 deaths 6,613T
12.

Cy Coleman

American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist (1929–2004)

Overview: Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

Date of birth: 14 June 1929

Date of death: 18 November 2004

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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Broadway composers and lyricists 199T

American male jazz musicians 3,214T

Äva Records artists 8T
13.

Edward Woods

American actor

Overview: Edward Woods (July 5, 1903 – October 8, 1989) was an American actor. He is probably best known for his extensive role as Matt Doyle in The Public Enemy opposite James Cagney.

Date of birth: 5 July 1903

Date of death: 8 October 1989

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Broadway actors 482T

Male actors from Michigan 179T

20th-century American male actors 8,672T
14.

George C. Wolfe

American playwright

Overview: George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (later turning ...

Date of birth: 23 September 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Broadway theatre directors 38T

Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

American male dramatists and playwrights 800T
15.

David Merrick

American theatre producer

Overview: David Merrick (November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.

Date of birth: 27 November 1911

Date of death: 25 April 2000

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Male

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Businesspeople from St. Louis 165T

American Theater Hall of Fame inductees 561T

American corporate directors 398T
16.

Richard Adler

American lyricist, writer, composer and producer

Overview: Richard Adler (August 3, 1921 – June 21, 2012) was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.

Date of birth: 3 August 1921

Date of death: 21 June 2012

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Songwriter

Gender: Male

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21st-century American Jews 3,425T

Broadway composers and lyricists 227T

Jewish American songwriters 318T
17.

Vincent Youmans

American composer

Overview: Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 – April 5, 1946) was an American Broadway composer and producer.

Date of birth: 27 September 1898

Date of death: 5 April 1947

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Tuberculosis deaths in Colorado 9T

Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

20th-century American composers 2,513T
18.

Onna White

Dancer and choreographer

Overview: Onna White (March 24, 1922 – April 8, 2005) was a Canadian choreographer and dancer, nominated for eight Tony Awards.

Date of birth: 24 March 1922

Date of death: 8 April 2005

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Choreographer

Gender: Female

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Broadway actors 482T

20th-century Canadian women singers 270T

20th-century women singers 3,624T
19.

Hildy Parks

American actress (1926–2004)

Overview: Hildy Parks (March 12, 1926 – October 7, 2004) was an American actress and writer for television programs.

Date of birth: 15 March 1926

Date of death: 7 October 2004

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Broadway actors 482T

20th-century American screenwriters 2,172T

21st-century American women 14,112T
20.

Joshua Logan

American director and writer (1908-1988)

Overview: Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American stage and film director. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the musical South Pacific and was involved in writing other ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1908

Date of death: 19 July 1988

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American memoirists 524T

Broadway theatre directors 42T

Broadway actors 482T