Jerome Schnur; Award-Winning TV Producer
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Jerome Schnur, an award-winning producer and director of television shows including “Beat the Clock,” “What’s My Line?” “I’ve Got a Secret” and “Two for the Money,” has died at age 66.
He died of melanoma Monday at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Schnur produced “Tomorrow Was Yesterday,” a CBS science special; “Michelangelo’s Pauline Chapel,” at the Vatican; “Light in the Wilderness,” a Dave Brubeck oratorio; and “L’Enfance du Christ,” which played on eight consecutive Christmases on CBS during the 1960s.
He worked with many choreographers at WNET in New York, including Agnes De Mille, Alvin Ailey and Antony Tudor, to develop the PBS series “Dance in America.”
Schnur also worked to showcase the American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet.
He received a Peabody Award in 1970 and an Emmy citation in 1971.
He is survived by his mother, Frances Buschbaum Schnur of Miami Beach, and a sister, Celeste Stone of Houston.
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