Dale McRaven, the author and producer who created TV sitcoms together with Mork & Mindy and Excellent Strangers, in addition to writing for the likes of The Dick Van Dyke Present and The Partridge Household, has died aged 83.
He died at his dwelling in California on September 5 of issues from lung most cancers.
His son David McRaven confirmed the information on Sunday to The Hollywood Reporter.
Working routinely with director and producer Garry Marshall, finest recognized for creating Comfortable Days and directing Julia Roberts smash hit rom-com Fairly Lady, it was Marshall who gave McRaven his breakthrough gig within the trade by hiring him as a employees author – alongside Carl Kleinschmidt – for The Joey Bishop Present on NBC in 1964.
They then moved over to The Dick Van Dyke Present the next 12 months after writing for a number of different comedies like The Odd Couple and Good Morning World.
After writing and producing on iconic present The Partridge Household, starring the likes of Shirley Jones and David Cassidy, for 5 years till 1974, McRaven additionally developed a fame over time for being a star maker and discovering expertise together with Cassidy and his co-stars, Robin Williams, Mark Hamill and Gary Busey.
Following the creation of the short-lived Angie in 1979 with Marshall, basic sitcom Mork & Mindy ran from 1978 till 1982.
It launched the careers of Williams and Pam Dawber, and was co-created by McRaven, Marshall and Joe Glauberg.
Within the present, Williams performs a wacky alien that involves Earth to review its residents and the lifetime of the human lady he boards with isn't the identical.
McRaven’s second huge hit was Excellent Strangers, which began in 1986 and lasted eight seasons and 150 episodes.
Following the identical odd-couple vibe, Excellent Strangers was a couple of highly-strung and cynical American (Mark-Linn Baker) whose life is remodeled when his naïve however good-natured cousin (Bronson Pinchot) from the fictional island of Mypos involves dwell with him in Chicago.
Different exhibits McRaven labored on embrace Texas Wheelers (1974), The Betty White Present (1978) and Get Sensible
Over the course of his TV profession, which he retired from within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, he was Emmy nominated and was nominated twice for a Writers Guild of America award, successful as soon as.
After retiring from TV, he moved right into a profession in pictures and digital artwork.
McRaven is survived by his son, daughter, daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, and niece, alongside her husband and daughter.
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