Sam Strangis, the Emmy-nominated producer, director and studio govt who labored on Batman , The Six Million Greenback Man and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation throughout his five-decade profession, has died. He was 95. Strangis died July 23 of kidney failure at Windfall Little Firm of Mary Medical Heart in Torrance, California, a household spokesperson introduced.
As head of manufacturing at Paramount Studios beginning within the late Nineteen Sixties, Strangis guided such memorable sequence as Mannix , The Odd Couple , Blissful Days , Laverne & Shirley , The Brady Bunch , Love, American Model and Mission: Inconceivable . With then-producing associate Don Boyle, he exited Paramount in 1974 to provide ABC’s new The Six Million Greenback Man , starring Lee Majors, for Common Tv. He adopted by shepherding telefilms earlier than returning to Paramount as vice chairman of TV manufacturing.
He would depart the studio once more, this time to launch Ten-4 Productions, an unbiased manufacturing firm that made such TV films as 1978’s Rainbow (the story of Judy Garland as a younger star), 1991’s Motive for Dwelling: The Jill Eire Story and 1993’s The Rainbow Warrior . Strangis concluded his profession by producing CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation throughout its first two seasons (2000-02) and the spinoff CSI: Miami throughout its first season (2002-03). In 2002, he shared an Emmy nomination for greatest drama sequence for the flagship.
Born on June 19, 1929, in Tacoma, Washin.
