Norman Barasch (February 18, 1922 - August 13, 2019) was an American
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
,
producer
Producer or producers may refer to:
Occupations
*Producer (agriculture), a farm operator
*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
**Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
. He was co-author, with
Carroll Moore, of the play ''Send Me No Flowers'', which was the basis for the 1964
film of the same name. Barasch died in August 2019 at his home in
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich (, ) is a New England town, town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the town had a total population of 63,518. The largest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast (Conne ...
, at the age of 97.
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1922 births
2019 deaths
Television producers from New York (state)
Screenwriters from New York (state)
American dramatists and playwrights
American comedy writers
American male screenwriters
American male television writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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