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The New York Times reports that photographer Henry Grossman has passed away. His is death was in late November last year. Grossman started photographing The Beatles when they were performing at the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, and later photographed them several times, both in the USA and in England, as well as on location during the filming of the film “Help!”.

As a photographer, Henry Grossman was best known for his formal portraits of celebrities and other public figures – but who also had a side career in New York City, as a tenor at the Metropolitan Opera and an actor in bit part on Broadway.

Grossman died on November 27 in Englewood, New Jersey. He died in a hospital several months after sustaining injuries from a fall. Grossman was 86 years old.

Mr. Grossman took portrait photographs of such luminaries as Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard M. Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor, Martha Graham, Leontyne Price, Leonard Bernstein and Nelson Mandela. He photographed new Metropolitan Opera productions for Time magazine and was the official photographer for many Broadway shows.

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Source: Photographer Henry Grossman – The Daily Beatle