Carolyn Beug
{{Short description|American filmmaker and producer (1952-2001)}}
{{Infobox person
|name= Carolyn Beug
|image= Carolyn Beug.gif
|birth_date= {{birth date|1952|12|11}}
|birth_place=
|death_date= {{death date and age|2001|9|11|1952|12|11}}
|death_place= North Tower, World Trade Center, New York City, U.S.
|death_cause= Plane crash during the September 11 attacks
|parents= Mary Alice Wahlstrom (Mother)
|occupation= Filmmaker and video producer
|children= 3
|spouse= John Beug
}}
Carolyn Ann Mayer-Beug (December 11, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was a filmmaker and video producer from Santa Monica, California. She died in the September 11 attacks as a passenger of the American Airlines Flight 11.
Career
In addition to her work as video producer, Beug also directed three music videos for country singer Dwight Yoakam: "Ain't That Lonely Yet", "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" and "Fast as You." Beug co-directed the former two videos with Yoakam and was the sole director of the latter video. She won an MTV Video Music award for the Van Halen music video of the song "Right Now", which she produced.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6043682|author=Scott Simon|title=John Beug 'Carries On' After Attacks Claimed Family|publisher=NPR|date=September 9, 2006|access-date=August 7, 2016}} She also served as senior vice president of Walt Disney Records.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-26-ca-50113-story.html|author=Lynne Heffley|title=At Disney Records It's Also an Adult World, After All|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 26, 1995|access-date=August 7, 2016}}
Personal life
Beug lived in a Tudor-style home in the North 25th Street neighborhood. She hosted an annual backyard barbecue for the Santa Monica High School cross country and track team, which her daughters captained. Beug was a Latter-day Saint.{{Cite web|author=Armstrong, Jamie|url=http://www.ldsliving.com/Mormons-and-9-11-Survivors-Rescuers-Victims-Families-Share-Their-Stories/s/65693?page=2|website=LDS Living|
archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113223655/http://www.ldsliving.com/Mormons-and-9-11-Survivors-Rescuers-Victims-Families-Share-Their-Stories/s/65693?page=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 13, 2017|title=Mormons and 9/11: Survivors, Rescuers, and Victims' Families Share Their Stories|date=November 13, 2017|access-date=January 5, 2019}}
Death and legacy
File:12.6.11CarolynBeugPanelN-1ByLuigiNovi2.jpg’s North Pool, with those of other passengers of Flight 11.]]
Beug was killed at the age of 48 in the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11, 2001 attacks. At the time of her death, Carolyn Beug was working on a children's book about Noah's Ark which was to be told from Noah's wife's point of view. On the plane with her was her mother, Mary Alice Wahlstrom.{{cite news |url=https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-woman-who-feared-flying-died-with-daughter-in-911-attacks |title=Utah woman who feared flying died with daughter in 9/11 attacks |first=Brian |last=Mullahy |date=11 September 2011 |access-date=11 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911154139/https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-woman-who-feared-flying-died-with-daughter-in-911-attacks |archive-date=11 September 2021 |work=KUTV}}{{cite news |url=https://ksltv.com/472305/utah-family-remembers-lessons-learned-from-9-11-tragedy/ |title=Utah family remembers lessons learned from 9/11 tragedy |first=Mike |last=Anderson |date=9 September 2021 |access-date=11 September 2022 |work=KSL-TV}} Beug was survived by her twin eighteen-year-old daughters Lauren and Lindsey Mayer-Beug, her 13-year-old son, Nick, and her husband, John Beug, a senior vice president in charge of filmed production for Warner Brothers' record division. She was returning home from taking her daughters to college at the Rhode Island School of Design.
At the National 9/11 Memorial, Beug is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-1.[http://names.911memorial.org/#lang=en_US&page=person&id=4393 Carolyn Mayer Beug] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727095710/http://names.911memorial.org/#lang=en_US&page=person&id=4393 |date=2013-07-27 }}. Memorial Guide: National 9/11 Memorial. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|2023126}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20020219021347/http://www.vhnd.net/articles/010913-01.shtml Van Halen News Desk article]
- {{Find a Grave|153208418|Carolyn Anne Beug}}
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{{Casualties of the September 11 attacks}}
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Category:American Airlines Flight 11 victims
Category:Film people from Santa Monica, California
Category:Latter Day Saints from California
Category:Terrorism deaths in New York (state)
Category:20th-century American women singers
Category:American music video directors
Category:Female music video directors
Category:American music industry executives
Category:Musicians from Santa Monica, California