Felicia Minei Behr, an Emmy-winning producer of ABC’s All My Kids and Ryan’s Hope and a significant power in that community’s powerhouse place within the cleaning soap opera universe of the Nineteen Seventies, ’80s and ’90s, died Sunday, March 2, following a five-year battle with mind most cancers. She was 82.
Her demise was introduced by daughters Kristina Behr Miller and Francesca Behr, who wrote on Fb that their mom was surrounded by family members on the time of her demise.
Born September 21, 1942, on Lengthy Island, New York, Behr, who would grow to be Senior Vice President of ABC Daytime Programming from 2000 to 2004, started her TV profession in 1960 as a secretary at CBS. Within the following years she would transfer up the business ladder with positions on The Jackie Gleason Present, The Ed Sullivan Present, The Garry Moore Present and ABC’s One Life to Reside.
When Agnes Nixon created ABC’s groundbreaking All My Kids in 1970, Behr was named affiliate producer. Behr remained with the Susan Lucci-starring cleaning soap till 1975.
She would return to All My Kids in 1989 as government producer, having already grow to be the primary feminine government producer of a daytime collection in 1988 with Ryan’s Hope. She had joined that collection, which featured a working class Irish-American household in New York Metropolis, in 1981 as a producer, and would stay with the present till its cancelation in 1989.
After her return to All My Kids in 1989, the immensely common collection gained two Daytime Emmy Awards for Excellent Drama Sequence (1992 and 1994), with 9 nominations in all.
“Her storytelling experience and deep reference to audiences helped create a few of the most memorable moments in cleaning soap opera historical past,” her household wrote in asserting her demise.
In 1996, Behr was named the chief producer of CBS’ Because the World Turns, remaining with the present till 1999. The next yr she was recruited again to ABC, the place as Senior Vice President of ABC Daytime Programming she was tasked with serving to the community’s cleaning soap line-up, together with All My Kids, Common Hospital, One Life to Reside and Port Charles, regain a few of its heyday shine. She continued in that place till 2004, guiding not solely the community’s soaps however the Barbara Walters-created daytime speak present The View.
In line with her household, Behr spent the latter a part of her profession contributing to worldwide tv manufacturing at Bavarian Filmstadt and taught undergraduate programs on tv manufacturing at Drexel College in Philadelphia.
Along with daughters Francesca Behr and Kristina Behr Miller, she is survived by daughters Kareen Horton and Victoria Russo; son Robert Behr; 10 grandchildren; in-laws and different prolonged household. She was preceded in demise by her husband of 46 years, Robert W. Behr, a technical director for ABC Sports activities and ABC Daytime who died in 2017.
The household requests donations be made in her reminiscence to Grey for Glioblastoma or New York Girls in Movie & Tv.
