Roger Gimbel

Roger Gimbel (March 11, 1925 – April 26, 2011) was an American television producer who specialized in television movies. Many of Gimbel's television films dealt with real-life events, including Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic, The Amazing Howard Hughes, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Often, Gimbel's films also focused on serious societal problems, including mental illness, war, and domestic abuse.

Biography Gimbel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 11, 1925 into the family who owned the Gimbels department store. He enrolled at Yale University, where he studied economics. and a son, Barney, with Warren.

At one time when he lived in an 18th-floor Sutton Place apartment overlooking the East River, he liked to catch fish from his apartment window.