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He was married twice. His son, James Burrows, became an influential television director whose credits have included The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Cheers. His daughter, Laurie Burrows Grad, is the author of four cookbooks and host of her own cooking show on The Learning Channel. Abe Burrows died from Alzheimer's disease in his native New York City.
May 19, 1985 · Abe Burrows, the librettist, director, author and comic who wrote a score of shows for Broadway, including ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,'' died of...
Burrows was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ruth (Levinson) and Abe Burrows, a well-known composer, director and writer. James has one sister, Laurie Burrows Grad. When James was still a young child, his family moved to New York where James attended New York’s High School of Music & Art.
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May 21, 1985 · Mr. Burrows's son, James, the director and producer of the television program ''Cheers,'' and his daughter, Laurie Burrows Grad, both of Los Angeles, spoke briefly, followed by Betty...
Abe Burrows. Writer: Just Go with It. Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University. He began his writing career as a script writer for "Duffy's Taven" on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee program.
- December 18, 1910
- May 17, 1985
Abe Burrows died after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. His daughter and her husband, former television executive Peter Grad, are patrons of “A Night at Sardi’s”, a benefit event that has raised over sixteen million dollars for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Apr 19, 2001 · Burrows died in 1985 at the age of 74. An oral history taped in 1959 begins with the fact that the family name originally was Borowitz, and that his grandfather and father started out as...