Jay Sandrich, the Emmy-winning TV director who was behind such iconic comedies as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls, WKRP in Cincinnati and Soap among others, has died.
He was 89.The news was confirmed Thursday by his former agency CAA.Sandrich directed two thirds of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the groundbreaking series that ran on CBS from 1970-1977.
He won two Emmys for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy for the series, in 1971 and 1973. He won two more for directing the equally groundbreaking The Cosby Show back to back in 1985 and 1986.In all, Sandrich was nominated for 11 Emmys, winning a Daytime one in 1984 in Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming – Direction for Insight.He
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