Lee Mendelson, guiding light of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas,' dies at 86
by Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Dec 27, 2019
3 minutes
Lee Mendelson, the prolific producer who guided "A Charlie Brown Christmas" to television, which became an instant holiday classic in 1965 and has since delighted tens of millions of viewers, has died. He was 86.
Mendelson died Wednesday at his Bay Area home in Hillsborough, Calif., of lung cancer and congestive heart failure, according to his son Jason Mendelson. The family had gathered at his home to celebrate Christmas.
"As he would have put it, it was serendipitous to go on Christmas Day - a day
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