Bill Geddie
William Fredrick Geddie (July 17, 1955 – July 20, 2023) was an American television producer. He was the co-creator (with Barbara Walters) of ABC Daytime's The View, on the ABC television network, and was also the show's executive producer for its first 16 seasons.
Bill Geddie
July 20, 2023 (aged 68)
Television producer
Geddie was also a partner with Walters in BarWall Productions and co-produced popular American television shows such as the Barbara Walters Specials and The 10 Most Fascinating People annual special.
Early life[edit]
William Frederick Geddie was born in San Antonio, Texas on July 17, 1955.[1][2] He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, majoring in communications/film. He had a job buffing the floors at KOCO-TV, in Oklahoma City and he said, "When you buffed the floors—this is how informal television was back then—they let you run camera for the local news. What got me off the floor was that I went to the news director and said I had shot film before, so he gave me a job shooting film."[3]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Geddie won six local Emmy Awards and four national Emmy Awards.[1] In 2003, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Talk Show category for his work as executive producer of The View.[1] He was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 39th Daytime Emmy Awards on June 23, 2012, for his contributions as writer, producer, and director in his more than 30-year television career.[14] Malachy Wienges, chairman of NATAS said, "Bill Geddie is an icon in the television industry."[14]