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Jonathan Axelrod, ABC and Columbia Exec, ‘Dave’s World’ Executive Producer, Dies at 74


Jonathan Axelrod, a studio and network executive and television producer and writer, died June 13 in Los Angeles. He was 74.

Jonathan Axelrod, a studio and network executive and television producer and writer, died June 13 in Los Angeles. He partnered with director John Frankenheimer, who he met as a teenager on the set of his father’s film “The Manchurian Candidate,” to produce TV movies like “Against the Wall.” In the later years of his career, Axelrod produced over two dozen movies for the Hallmark Channel. His other producing credits include the series “Can’t Hurry Love,” “Brothers Keeper” and “Garage Sale Mysteries.”

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