James Burrows, director of classic TV comedies including 'Cheers' and 'Friends,' dies at 85
James Burrows, who helped create volumes of laughter as director of more than a thousand episodes of such classic television comedies as “Cheers,” “Taxi,” “Friends” and “Will and Grace,” died Friday. He was 85.
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