Prideaux, James

James Prideaux
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Name	Prideaux, James Gender: M
Birthname	James E. Priddy
born on	29 August 1927 at 19:18 (= 7:18 PM )
Place	South Bend, Indiana, 41n41, 86w15
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	05°41' 06°37 Asc. 00°52'

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Biography

American playwright, known for The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, which depicts the final 17 years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life that follow her husband's assassination. The play won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright in 1973. He also wrote Postcards, Lemonade, and The Orphans.

Moving to television, he wrote The Secret Storm. He became friends with Katharine Hepburn, who acted in many of his films, such as Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986), Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988), and The Man Upstairs (1992). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie for producing Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry. In 1996, he published his memoirs Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences.

He died of a stroke in West Hills, Los Angeles on 18 November 2015, aged 88.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• friend relationship with Hepburn, Katharine (born 12 May 1907)

Events

• Work : Prize 1973 (Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright)

• Death by Disease 18 November 2015 (Stroke, age 88)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate.

Categories

• Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Stroke)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 88)

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer (Memoirist)

• Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist

• Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script (Stage and TV)

• Notable : Awards : Vocational award (Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright)