Roger Gimbel, Primetime Emmy-Winning Producer of Acclaimed Made-for TV Movies and Specials
Gimbel won his Emmy for the 1973 TV film A War of Children.
Roger Gimbel, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning television producer, died April 26, 2011, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 86.
According to news reports, the cause was pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday. His wife, actress Jennifer Warren, was at his side.
Over the course of 30 years, Gimbel produced numerous specials and made-for-television movies. His productions received 18 Emmys, including one for 1973’s A War of Children, about Irish and Protestant friends surrounded by discord in Belfast.
He also produced dozens of made-for-television movies, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Queen of the Stardust Ballroom and produced specials with Bing Crosby, Sophia Loren, Dean Martin and others.
Gimbel, a scion of the Gimbels department store family, was born March 11, 1925, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Survivors include his wife and four children.