Adrian Taylor (producer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American producer
Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1954
Place of Birth: Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 21-Mar-2014
Profession: television producer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Adrian Taylor (producer)
- Adrian Clemens "Clem" Taylor (January 27, 1954 – March 21, 2014) was an American television news producer, noted for his work on 60 Minutes, The Early Show and CBS News.
- Taylor won a Peabody Award for his 60 Minutes segment, "Joy in the Congo," which featured the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- In addition to his Peabody, Taylor also won eight Emmy Awards over the course of his broadcasting career.Taylor was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on January 27, 1954.
- As a high school student, Taylor created "Morning Announcements," a televised school announcement show broadcast within his school, and became a paid sports reporter for the local newspaper, The Doylestown Intelligencer.
- Taylor received his bachelor's degree from Boston College, where he had served as the editor of BC's student newspaper, The Heights.Taylor moved to Washington D.C.
- after graduation from Boston College.
- He worked for United States Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania for one year.
- He then returned to reporting, first as a producer and then a reporter for National Public Radio.
- Taylor also worked for ABC News for approximately ten years, where he produced segments for 20/20 and Primetime Live.
- He also produced pieces for CNBC, ESPN and Fox News during his career.Clem Taylor spent nearly twenty years with CBS News.
- He worked as a CBS producer based in Washington D.C., Dallas, and New York City.
- He was assigned as a producer based in the White House during the Reagan administration during the 1980s.
- Taylor covered the ReykjavÃk Summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Iceland in 1986.
- In the late 1990s, he was named a senior producer of The Early Show during the late 1990s.Taylor spent his last four years at CBS News as a producer for 60 Minutes.
- He co-produced a 60 Minutes segment, called "Joy in the Congo," on the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- "Joy in the Congo" originally broadcast on Easter Sunday in 2012.
- The segment won a Peabody Award in May 2013.Taylor's last segment for 60 Minutes focused on a group of men who staged the 1980 Winter Olympics.In May 2013, Taylor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
- He died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, on March 21, 2014, at the age of 60.
- He was survived by his wife, Hilary; two children, Lila and Adrian "Billy" Taylor; his parents and siblings.
- He was a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.
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