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Joseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan (March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), was an American composer, director, producer, and screenwriter.
May 23, 2011 · There came a point when Joseph Brooks, an Oscar-winning songwriter, apparently decided that life was no longer worth living; his body was discovered on Sunday, with ample evidence of a suicide....
May 24, 2011 · May 23, 2011. Before his life had tumbled into scandal and ended over the weekend in suicide at the age of 73, Joseph Brooks had carved out a glittering, idiosyncratic career as author of some of...
May 24, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life," who was awaiting trial on rape charges and was found dead in his apartment, committed suicide,...
May 23, 2011 · Joseph Brooks was originally a writer of jingles who later won an Oscar and Grammy award for his 1977 Debby Boone hit, “You Light Up My Life.” But on Sunday afternoon, his life ended...
May 24, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial for rape, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.
May 22, 2011 · 'You Light Up My Life' songwriter Joseph Brooks, who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting several young actresses, died Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, according to police.
Dec 2, 2014 · GRAMMY-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks committed suicide May 22 in New York. He was 73. Brooks composed the music for the 1977 film You Light Up My Life , and the title track garnered him a GRAMMY for Song Of The Year at the 20th Annual GRAMMY Awards, as well as two additional nominations for Record Of The Year and Best Original ...
Jan 27, 2017 · The man who accepted that Oscar in 1978 was former jingle writer Joseph Brooks, who not only composed the song but also wrote and directed the film.
May 23, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the Oscar- and Grammy Award-winning songwriter, has died in an apparent suicide. Brooks, 73, reportedly suffocated himself with a plastic bag hooked up to a helium tank. He is...
