Bob Henry, TV producer and director, dies at 92

March 21, 2012 5:13 PM PT

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Bob Henry, a veteran TV producer and director best known for his work on Nat King Cole’s and Flip Wilson’s variety shows, died Sunday at his home in Laguna Beach. He was 92.

Henry had also served as board president of Laguna Beach’s Pageant of the Masters and the Festival of the Arts, which announced his death.

From the fall of 1956 through 1957, NBC aired “The Nat King Cole Show,” notable for featuring a black host on a nationally televised entertainment program. Henry was a producer, director and writer for the show.

Henry went on to produce and direct “Flip,” winning an Emmy Award in 1971 when the show was named outstanding musical variety series.

A full obituary will follow at latimes.com/obits.

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Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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