Julian Fowles, Longtime Film and Television Producer, Dies at 76
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy Julian Fowles, a film and television producer who worked at KCET and Esparza/Katz Productions, died in a hospital in Miami, Flor.
on Saturday while recovering from a stroke. He was 76 years old.Fowles’ death was confirmed to Variety by his colleague William Immerman.Before operating in entertainment, Fowles graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
His legal career led him to California, where he began to work as a contract attorney in the legal departments of Universal, Columbia and 20th Century Fox.Fowles eventually began to pursue his dream of producing, joining the local Los Angeles public broadcasting station KCET as an executive producer of local programming.
His credits include “Eleanor: In Her Own Words,” a one-woman show starring Lee Remick as Eleanor Roosevelt. “Eleanor” was the first local production to be picked up by PBS for the network’s “American Playhouse” series.
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