Saul Swimmer | Concert-film director, 70
Saul Swimmer, 70, who directed the documentary The Concert for Bangladesh , immortalizing the 1971 show organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to raise money for refugees, died March 3 in Miami of heart failure.
Saul Swimmer, 70, who directed the documentary
The Concert for Bangladesh
, immortalizing the 1971 show organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to raise money for refugees, died March 3 in Miami of heart failure.
The 1972 film featured Harrison and Ringo Starr a year after the Beatles broke up. Shankar, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan also played in one of the first major rock-concert benefits. The movie raised money for UNICEF relief efforts for refugees of the floods, famine and civil war in Bangladesh.
Mr. Swimmer also was a coproducer on the 1970 Beatles movie Let It Be. - AP