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Bob Banner, 89, a TV producer and director whose credits included the Dinah Shore, Garry Moore and Carol Burnett variety shows as well as the TV movies “The Darker Side of Terror” and “Sea Wolf,” died Wednesday of Parkinson’s disease, family spokeswoman Lauren Cottrell told the Los Angeles Times.
Banner won a directing Emmy in 1958 for “The Dinah Shore Chevy Show.” He went on to produce Burnett TV specials, including “Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall” and “Carol Plus Two,” before he became executive producer of “The Carol Burnett Show.”
He was also executive producer of the 1988 AIDS benefit concert “That’s What Friends Are For,” hosted by Dionne Warwick. The Associated Press
