Milestones, May 14, 1979

DIED. Fred Coe, 64, director and producer of Broadway and television dramas, including more than 500 live productions for NBC's Playhouse (1948-53); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. After studying for two years at the Yale Drama School and working in radio and theater, Coe landed his first TV job in 1945 and within a year was producing, directing and writing his own shows, aspiring, he said, "to bring Broadway to America via the television set." For twelve years at NBC and three at CBS, he pursued this goal, creating small-screen renditions of works by Shakespeare, Fitzgerald and Dostoevsky...

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