George Abbott
American writer and director (1887-1995)
Biography
George Francis Abbott was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. He received numerous honors including six Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1982, the National Medal of Arts in 1990, and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Occupation
George Abbott is recorded as a film producer, a autobiographer, a director, a theatre director, a film director, a stage actor, a music director, a playwright, a writer, a actor and a screenwriter, born in New York (1887–1995).
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