David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He won multiple

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s as the creator and executive producer of the ''

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'' spin-off shows ''

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'' and ''

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'' with

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and David Lee. Angell and his wife Lynn were killed heading home from their vacation on Cape Cod aboard

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, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the

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Early life

Angell was born in

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, to Henry and Mae (née Cooney) Angell. He received a bachelor's degree in English literature from

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. He married Lynn Edwards on August 14, 1971. Soon after Angell entered the

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upon graduation and served at

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until 1972. He then moved to

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and worked as a methods analyst at an engineering company and later at an insurance firm in

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.Profile
legacy.com; accessed March 30, 2015. His brother, the Most Rev. Kenneth Angell, was a

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prelate and Bishop of Burlington, Vermont.

Career

Angell moved to Los Angeles in 1977. His first script was sold to the producers of the ''Annie Flynn'' series. Five years later, he sold his second script, for the sitcom ''

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''. In 1983, he joined ''

'' as a staff writer. In 1985, Angell joined forces with Peter Casey and David Lee as ''Cheers'' supervising producers/writers. The trio received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won 24

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, including the above-mentioned for ''Frasier''. They also won an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for ''Cheers'', in 1989, which Angell, Casey, Lee and the series' other producers shared, and an Outstanding Writing/Comedy Emmy for ''Cheers'', which Angell received in 1984. After working together as producers on ''Cheers'', Angell, Casey and Lee formed

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. In 1990, they created and executive-produced the comedy series ''

''.

Death

Angell and his wife, Lynn were killed in the 2001

at the World Trade Center in

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. They were among the passengers of

, who were all killed when that plane struck the North Tower of the complex. By coincidence, in an episode Angell cowrote for ''Frasier'', a stranger leaves a telephone message for Frasier saying that she will soon arrive on "American Flight 11".

Legacy

The

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awards the annual

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to any individual in the entertainment industry who contributes to global well-being through donations of time, expertise or other support to improve the human condition. In 2004, The Angell Foundation of Los Angeles, California, awarded Providence College a gift of $2 million for the Smith Center for the Arts. The two-part episode of ''Frasier'' to air after the attacks, "Don Juan in Hell" airing on September 25, 2001, ended with the memorial tribute, "In loving memory of our friends Lynn and David Angell". "

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", series finale that aired May 13, 2004, featured the birth of

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and

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's son, who is named David in tribute. At the

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, Angell and his wife are memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-1, along with other passengers from Flight 11.David Lawrence Angell
. Memorial Guide:

. Retrieved December 11, 2011.

References

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