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Frances Doel Dies: Roger Corman’s Longtime Collaborator Was 83
Frances Doel, writer-producer-executive known for her work with indie film legend Roger Corman, died May 26 after a long illness at age 83.
At New World, Doel worked alongside several future Hollywood luminaries, Oscar winners, Emmy winners and legends, including Chinatown screenwriter Robert Towne; actors like Warren Beaty, Angie Dickinson, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, William Shatner, and Shelley Winters; producers Jon Davison and Gale Anne Hurd; directors Peter Bogdanovich, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante and Allan Arkush. In the last decade of her career, Doel returned to working with Corman, serving as his VP of Production at Concorde-New Horizons, where she continued to successfully produce and write on a slate of film and television projects. Doel is survived by her younger siblings, Rosemary Tannock, Diana Clayden and Roger Clayden and their families, by longtime companion Harrison Reiner, and by her beloved friends Pam Abraham, Jon Davison, Robert L. Goodman, Gale Anne Hurd, Guy Prevost, Anne Dyer Rodman, Adam Rodman, Stephanie Rothman, and Jeffrey Sturges.
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