LEE MINOFF

1934 - 2022

MINOFF--Lee. Lee Minoff, a writer and psychoanalyst, died September 29, 2022 at age 88, following a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Lee wrote ad copy for the venerable advertising agency BBD&O as a young man in New York City. He worked as a publicist for Otto Preminger Productions during the shooting of "The Leopard" in 1964 and as an assistant to Stanley Kubrick on "Dr. Strangelove" in 1964. His play "Come Live with Me," co-authored by Stanley Price, opened at the Billy Rose Theater on Broadway in New York in January 1967. He wrote the original screenplay for the Beatles' award-winning animated film "Yellow Submarine," which was released in 1968. Trained as a psychoanalyst in the late 1970s at NPAP (the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis) in New York, he had a vibrant practice for several decades. He was the recipient of the ABC Theatre Award for his play "Cathexis" in 1980. Born Leon Abraham Minoff in Brooklyn on August 1, 1934, he was the third child of Charles ("Cholly") Minoff, an inventor and the owner of the Idemin Manufacturing Company in Brooklyn, and of the former Ida Lubroth. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1955, where he majored in English and played varsity baseball. He was predeceased by his brother Philip (in 2011) and his sister Martha Shankman (in 2016). He is survived by his wife, Anne Drager- Minoff, and by loving nieces and nephews. In recent years, he spent his summers in Montauk and his winters in Sharon, Connecticut. "Lion's Heart," a show of recent portraits of Lee painted by his wife, Anne Drager, will be on display at the Ceres Gallery in New York, November 1-26, with a reception on November 3, 2022 from 6pm-8pm. A memorial service will take place in the spring of 2023.