Lee Mendelson, a television producer who persuaded Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz to do an animated holiday special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” which has been broadcast every year since 1965, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lee Mendelson, the producer who changed the face of the holidays when he brought "A Charlie Brown Christmas" to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee Mendelson, the producer behind more than 50 animated TV specials featuring Charlie Brown and the "Peanuts" gang, died on ...

Lee Mendelson wrote the lyrics to the song "Christmas Time Is Here," which is featured in the iconic 1965 TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV ...

Lee Mendelson, the producer behind more than 50 animated TV specials featuring Charlie Brown and the “Peanuts” gang, died on Christmas Day at his home in Hillsborough, Calif., after a long battle with ...

Lee Mendelson, a well-known producer behind more than 50 animated Charlie Brown television specials, died on Christmas at age 86, multiple outlets report. Along with producing other holiday specials ...

Mr. Mendelson, who worked on dozens of animated projects, also wrote the enduring lyrics to the song “Christmas Time Is Here.” By Derrick Bryson Taylor Lee Mendelson, an Emmy Award-winning producer ...

Lee Mendelson, the longtime executive producer of numerous specials for the TV animated series “Peanuts,” has died, his family said. The producer, 86, passed away at his San Francisco Bay Area home on ...