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09-01-2011, 01:44 AM
Link (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20110901,0,3760894.story)
David Pressman, 97, a veteran television and stage director who won three daytime Emmy awards for directing the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live," died Monday at his home in New York, his family announced. He had been in declining health.
Born Oct. 10, 1913, in Tbilisi in what is now the Republic of Georgia, Pressman came to the United States with his family when he was 9. He studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York and then became a teacher there while also acting in stage productions.
After serving in the Army during World War II, Pressman returned from Europe and began directing live shows for the emerging medium of television, including "Actors Studio" and other programs.
He also directed stage productions, including "The Disenchanted," a Budd Schulberg drama that opened on Broadway in 1958 and starred Jason Robards Jr., and a 1968 production of "Summertree" at Lincoln Center with David Birney and Blythe Danner.
Besides directing "The Defenders," "The Doctors and the Nurses," "N.Y.P.D" and other prime-time TV series in the 1960s, Pressman also began working in daytime drama. From the early '70s to the late '90s he directed "One Life to Live," winning three daytime Emmys.
David Pressman, 97, a veteran television and stage director who won three daytime Emmy awards for directing the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live," died Monday at his home in New York, his family announced. He had been in declining health.
Born Oct. 10, 1913, in Tbilisi in what is now the Republic of Georgia, Pressman came to the United States with his family when he was 9. He studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York and then became a teacher there while also acting in stage productions.
After serving in the Army during World War II, Pressman returned from Europe and began directing live shows for the emerging medium of television, including "Actors Studio" and other programs.
He also directed stage productions, including "The Disenchanted," a Budd Schulberg drama that opened on Broadway in 1958 and starred Jason Robards Jr., and a 1968 production of "Summertree" at Lincoln Center with David Birney and Blythe Danner.
Besides directing "The Defenders," "The Doctors and the Nurses," "N.Y.P.D" and other prime-time TV series in the 1960s, Pressman also began working in daytime drama. From the early '70s to the late '90s he directed "One Life to Live," winning three daytime Emmys.