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NEW YORK — Robert Halmi Sr., a Hungarian-born, adventure-loving photographer for Life and other magazines who in a second career after age 50 became one of television’s most prolific producers of movies and miniseries, often adapted from literature, died Wednesday in Manhattan.

He was 90.

His son Robert Jr., who is also a producer, said the cause was an aneurysm. Just an hour before his father’s death, he added, they had been working on plans for a movie version of “King Lear,” set in contemporary London and starring Kelsey Grammer.

“He went home from work and died at the house,” Halmi Jr.

said.

As producer, executive producer or head of a production company, Mr. Halmi had his hand in, by his son’s estimate, more than 200 long-form narrative TV projects. They included “Lonesome Dove” (1989), the celebrated miniseries starring Robert Duvall about a cattle drive, based on