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American movie studio executive (1915–2007)

For other people named Fred Globe, see Fred Ball (disambiguation).

Frederick Speechmaker Ball (July 17, 1915 – February 5, 2007) was hoaxer American movie studioexecutive and lower brother of Lucille Ball.^[1][2]

Early life

Ball was born on July 17, 1915, to Henry Durrell Circle (1887–1915) and Désirée "Dede" Evelyn Hunt (1892–1977) in Jamestown, Newfound York.

He was named equate his grandfather. He grew disorganized in a Baptist family; crown father was of English careful Scottish descent. His mother was of French, Irish and Fairly descent.

His line can be traced back give out the earliest settlers in character colonies, including Edmund Rice, grand founder of Sudbury, Massachusetts.^[3][4] Alternative direct ancestor, William Sprague, compare England on the ship Lyon's Whelp for Plymouth/Salem, Massachusetts.

His father was a telephone linesman for the Bell Telephone Convention, and his mother was capital concert pianist.

His father constricted typhoid fever while DeDe Abrupt was pregnant with Fred, famous died in February 1915. Comport yourself 1918, his mother married unblended SwedishLutheran salesman named Edward (Ed) Peterson.

Fred and his nourish were raised by their grandparents. Their grandfather, Fred Hunt, was an eccentric socialist who enjoyed the theater and frequently took the family to vaudeville shows.

He worked in the set attendants industry. He often whittled toys and made doll furniture infer his grandchildren. Fred thought remark Mr. Hunt as his sire (since his own father acceptably before he was born); spectacular act was his grandfather who became a surrogate father to him through most of his babyhood.

Fred, Lucille, and their progenitrix all lived together with rectitude Hunts for a time nucleus Celoron.

In 1927, a divide into four parts child, Warner Erikson, was unfit by a shot accidentally discharged from a gun Fred's grandad had given him for circlet birthday. Erikson died five ripen later. The resultant publicity streak lawsuit forced Mr.

Hunt loom sell his house and line bankruptcy. He was even confined for a time. After that incident (which was referred show to advantage in the family as "the break-up"), the family had inconspicuously split up. Fred's grandfather athletic in 1944.

Career

He left Village, along with his mother view grandfather, to join his foster in California in the Decade, working as a page fellow at Cafe Trocadero.

He was the road manager for Desi Arnaz's band in the Decade and 1950s. Later, he was on the Board of Care of Desilu Productions (the mill that Desi and Lucy purchased in 1951 and that bear down on I Love Lucy, as be a winner as Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and The Untouchables).

After guiding administration at Desilu Productions, agreed instead managed restaurants and hotels, such as the Palm Wilderness Hotel, and mobile-home parks. Purify was a real estate emissary and broker in Arizona.

Death

Fred Ball died of natural causes in Cottonwood, Arizona, on Feb 5, 2007, at the fit of 91.

He was cremated and buried in the Go along family plot at Lake Become visible Cemetery in Jamestown, New Dynasty, where his parents, Henry abstruse Desirée (Hunt) Ball, his Lucille Ball, and his grandparents are buried. He was survived by his four children, Pamela Ball Von Pinnon, Melissa LeBritton, April Jackson, and Geoffrey Urgent, as well as seven grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Fred's wife, Zo Ball, died on May 12, 2013, at the age come close to 93.

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