American screenwriter, director and television producer
David Clark Lee (born 1950)[ 1] television producer ,director , andwriter .
Lee grew up inClaremont, California , and went to college at theUniversity of Redlands .[ 2] The Jeffersons Cheers Peter Casey for, respectively, six and four years.[ 3] Wings Frasier David Angell under theGrub Street Productions .
He produced revival productions of Broadway musicals, includingSouth Pacific Brian Stokes Mitchell andReba McEntire ,[ 3] [ 2] Can-Can Camelot [ 4] Can-Can [ 5] [ 6]
Lee has been nominated eighteen times forPrimetime Emmy Awards ; he won nine out of those nominations.[ 7] [ 8] Directors Guild Award , theGolden Globe Award ,Producers Guild Award ,GLAAD Media Award ,British Comedy Award , threeTelevision Critics Association Awards , twoHumanitas Prizes , and thePeabody Award .[ 8]
He was honored the 449th star, placed atPalm Springs Walk of Stars , on March 18, 2022.[ 9]
Lee isopenly gay .[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 2]
He paid US$3 million in 2002 (equivalent to $5,245,000 in 2024) for a Palm Springs estate built by architectDonald Wexler and originally resided in byDinah Shore .[ 3] [ 3] Leonardo DiCaprio in 2014 for $5,230,000 (equivalent to $6,947,000 in 2024).[ 13]
^ McKairnes, Jim (22 October 2017)."DAVID LEE" .The Interviews . Retrieved25 January 2019 . ^a b c David Lee (September 3, 2012)."PalmSprings.com Spotlight: An Interview with David Lee" .PalmSprings.com (blog) (Interview). RetrievedDecember 8, 2013 . ^a b c d Beale, Lauren (May 1, 2009)."Jeffersons producer David Lee lists Dinah Shore Palm Springs estate for $5,995,000" .Los Angeles Times . RetrievedMay 16, 2016 . ^ Levitt, Hayley (October 30, 2014)."Frasier Cocreator David Lee on Can-Can, Camelot, and 11 Years of 22-Minute Plays" , TheaterMania.com; retrieved May 16, 2016. ^ Gans, Andrew (January 17, 2013)."Revival of Cole Porter's Can-Can Aiming for Broadway in Spring 2014; David Lee Will Direct" ,Playbill ^ Reiner, Jay."Review of Pasadena Playhouse 'Revisal'" ,Reuters ^ "David Lee" .Emmys.com . RetrievedMay 16, 2016 .^a b "David Lee" .laphil.com . RetrievedMay 16, 2016 .^ Ventura, Bianca (March 18, 2022)."Palm Springs Walk of the Stars honors David Lee with 449th star" . RetrievedFebruary 24, 2024 . ^ Littlefield, Warren (2012)."Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs" .Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV .New York City : Anchor Books. p. 134.ISBN 9780307739766 . RetrievedDecember 8, 2013 . ^ Becker, Ron (2006). "Gay Material and Prime-Time Network Television".Gay TV and Straight America 163 . RetrievedDecember 8, 2013 .David Lee gay. ^ Littlefield, Kinney (1996)."In '95, Gay Came To Stay In Prime-time TV" .Chicago Tribune ^ Beale, Lauren (March 7, 2014),Leonardo DiCaprio buys Dinah Shore's onetime desert home ,Los Angeles Times
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