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David Angell, a popular television producer, was a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City.

David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was an American television sitcom producer. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the hit comedy series Frasier.^[1]

David was born in West Barrington, RI, and he received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Providence College. He entered the army upon graduation and served at the Pentagon until 1972. David then moved to Boston and worked as a methods analyst at an engineering company and later at an insurance firm in Rhode Island.

David moved to Los Angeles in 1977. His first first script was sold to the producers of the Annie Flynn series. Five years later, he sold his second script to Archie Bunker's Place. David virtually worked in every temporary job known to mankind. In 1983, he joined Cheers as a staff writer. In 1985, David Angell joined forces with Peter Casey and David Lee as Cheers supervising producers/writers. The trio received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won 24 Emmy Awards, including the above-mentioned for Frasier, as well as an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for Cheers, in 1989, which Angell, Casey, Lee and the series' other producers shared, and Outstanding Writing/Comedy Emmy for Cheers, which Angell received in 1984. After working together as producers on the hit comedy series Cheers for NBC-TV, Angell, Casey and Lee formed "Grub Street Productions." In 1990, they created and executive-produced the hit comedy series Wings, which received critical and ratings success during its seven-season run.

Angell was returning to Los Angeles with his wife, Lynn, after attending a family wedding in Chatham, Massachusetts, when they were killed on American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. They had no children. He was survived by his brother, Kenneth A. Angell, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Burlington, Vermont.

On the Frasier series finale, characters Daphne and Niles gave birth to a son named David, in dedication to Angell. In delivering his eulogy, David Lee, a colleague on Cheers and Frasier, credited Angell with coining the word "boinking" as a euphemism for sex on Cheers. He cited this as just one example of the many comedic contributions he made to the art form. Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson also spoke at the funeral.

1. ^ "Angell, Olson among industry victims", The Hollywood Reporter, September 12, 2001.

• NY Times--David Angell, a Creator and Writer for 'Frasier' Sitcom, Dies at 54