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April 10, 2004. Ward Botsford, a producer of classical and spoken recordings, died on April 1 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He was 76 and lived in Pound Ridge, N.Y. The cause...
Mar 25, 2005 · Ward Botsford, Grammy award winning classical and spoken arts record producer, died on Thursday [April 1, 2004] at New York Hospital due to complications from MDS, a form of leukemia. He was 76. Botsford was considered by many to be the penultimate classical music maven.
See index for CA sketch: Born June 22, 1927, in Titusville, PA; died of leukemia, April 1, 2004, in New York, NY. Record producer and author. Botsford was a Grammy Award-winning producer of classical and spoken recordings.
Writer: Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ward Botsford was born on 22 June 1927 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Nutcracker (1986) and Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988). He died on 1 April 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Ward Botsford (22 June 1927 – 1 April 2004; age 76) co-wrote the story for the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "Rascals" with his daughter Diana Dru Botsford. It is the only episode of Star Trek either of them worked on. He also directed Star Trek: The Original Series actor William Shatner for the Caedmon Records recording of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation". He also directed Leonard Nimoy for recordings of "The Martian Chronicles" and "Mimsy Where the Borogroves".
Botsford died of leukemia on 1 April 2004.
•Ward Botsford at the Internet Movie Database
Writer: Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ward Botsford was born on 22 June 1927 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Nutcracker (1986) and Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988). He died on 1 April 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.
Ward Botsford (22 June 1927 – 1 April 2004) was a producer of classical and spoken recordings, intersted in unusual repertory and forgotten historical recordings. At the Vox and Caedmon Records labels in the 1950's, 60's and 70's, he recorded little-known Dvorak pieces and spoken recordings by Sir John Gielgud, T. S. Eliot and others.
