Don Silverman; Producer Also Wrote, Directed for TV
Emmy-award winning producer Don Silverman, who also wrote and directed dozens of episodic and special TV programs, has died of cancer.
His brother, Richard Silverman, said the Boston-born television executive was 60 when he died Thursday in Los Angeles.
Silverman worked in the industry for more than 40 years, first in radio and later in TV, rising from production assistant to producer-director of such varied programming as the CBS and NBC network news shows to the Miss Universe pageants.
Silverman was involved with the “Today” show in its formative years and produced “The Dick Cavett Show,” for which he won an Emmy for daytime programming in the 1968-69 season.
Other award-winning programs or TV movies he wrote or helped produce and direct included “Act of Love: The Patricia Neal Story,” “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “The Winds of War,” “Mork and Mindy,” “Mark Twain Tonight” and “NBC White Paper: Organized Crime in America.”
Besides his brother, Silverman is survived by two children, Nicholas and Michelle Earl.
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