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Bell, Lee Phillip

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Personal name headingBell, Lee Phillip
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Variant(s)Phillip, Lee
Phillip, Loreley June
LocatedLos Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date1928-06-10
1928-06-09
Death date2020-02-25
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityTelevision broadcasting
AffiliationWBBM-TV (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
Profession or occupationTelevision producers and directors Television personalities
Found inThe young and restless life of William J. Bell, 2012: t.p. (Lee Phillip Bell) data view (known to millions of TV viewers as a soap-opera creator, co-executive producer, television talk-show host, and documentarian. She was married to William J. Bell for fifty years. She was a pioneer in broadcasting and hosted talk shows (The Lee Phillip Show and others) and documentaries at WBBM-TV in Chicago from 1952 to 1986. She's won 17 regional Emmys, Golden Mike awards, a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series as co-creator of The Young and the Restless in 1975, and the Daytime Emmy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Together, Lee and Bill co-created Y&R and The Bold and the Beautiful. They have three children, William James Bell, Bradley Phillip Bell and Lauralee Kristen Bell Martin)
Email from pub., Feb. 6, 2012 (Loreley June Phillip Bell; b. June 10, 1928)
IMDb, Aug. 7, 2012 (The Lee Phillip Show)
   <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539102/>
Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 28, 2020 (in obituary dated Feb. 27, 2020: Lee Phillip Bell, a Chicago television personality who interviewed politicians and celebrities, reported on divorce and sexual assault, and partnered with her husband to create two of TV's longest-running soap operas, bringing a focus on social issues to a genre more commonly known for sentimental romance, died Feb. 25 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91. Loreley June Phillip was born in Chicago on June 9, 1928)
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