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- Defunción14 de octubre de 2020 · Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (causa no comunicada)
- Herbert Kretzmer nació el 5 de octubre de 1925 en Sudáfrica. Fue un escritor, conocido por Los miserables (2012), Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010) y Un lugar llamado Notting Hill (1999). Estuvo casado con Sybil Sever y Elisabeth Wilson. Murió el 14 de octubre de 2020 en Londres, Inglaterra.
- CónyugesSybil Sever(1988 - 14 de octubre de 2020) (su muerte)Elisabeth Wilson(1961 - 1973) (divorciado, 2 niños)
- FamiliaresBen Goldenberg(Cousin)
- Won Broadway's 1987 Tony Award, his lyrics with Alain Boublil and the music of Claude-Michel Schönberg as Best Score for "Les Misérables."
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 238-240. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to music. He was the lyricist for the musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel, "Les Miserables".
- As of December 2010, he was residing in Kensington, London, England.
- A well-known show business journalist for British newspapers in the 1950s with a fondness for writing song lyrics. He progressed from writing comic songs for Millicent Martin on "That Was The Week That Was" to the English-language version of the stage musical smash-hit "Les Miserables", which made him hugely rich in his old age.
- [on Greta Garbo] Boiled down to essentials, she is a plain mortal girl with large feet.
- Old songwriters don't die, they just decompose.
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