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- Birth nameRichard Charles Wald
- Richard Wald was born on March 19, 1930 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Edith Leslie. He died on May 13, 2022 in Westchester, New York, USA.
- SpouseEdith Leslie(1954 - December 11, 2021) (her death, 3 children)
- Father of Jonathan Wald.
- He graduated from Columbia University and studied literature at the University of Cambridge, from which he received a master's degree.
- He started out as a reporter at the New York Herald Tribune.
- When he was president of NBC News, Paddy Chayefsky spent time with him while working on his Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 movie "Network". The character of a news division president, played by William Holden, was based in part on Wald.
- Newspaper and TV executive who was president of NBC News in the 1970s and helped create ABC's "Nightline".
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