David Angell Biography

Fast Facts

• Joined the U․S․ Army after graduating from college and served in the Pentagon for several years
• Won a Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television for "Frasier" in 1996
• Was awarded a posthumous Valentine Davies Award from the Writers Guild of America in 2002
• Graduated from Providence College with a degree in English Literature
• Joined David Lee and Peter Casey as a writer on the TV series "Cheers" in 1985, after which they formed Grub Street Productions
• Worked at an engineering company and an insurance firm before moving to Los Angeles to become a television writer in 1977
• Best known as the co-creator and co-executive producer of "Wings" and "Frasier" with Peter Casey and David Lee
• The concept for "Frasier" came about in 1993, when he, Peter Casey, and David Lee were approached by Kelsey Grammar with the idea of creating a new TV series with him as the star
• The original setting for "Frasier" was Denver, but after a Colorado law passed that was unfavorable toward gay people, he and the other writers chose Seattle instead
• Initially reluctant to create a spin-off of "Cheers," they first envisioned a show for Kelsey Grammar as a multi-millionaire publisher who was paralyzed from the waist down with a street smart live-in nurse