‘Six Million Dollar Man,’ ‘CSI’ Producer Was 95

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, Washington, he started his profession as a script supervisor at Revue Studios. That led to him directing episodes of the 1957-59 NBC sequence The Stressed Gun, a post-Civil Conflict Western that starred John Payne.

After serving as a manufacturing supervisor and directing 9 third-season episodes of ABC’s Batman from 1966-68 — he additionally labored on the 1966 function — he started his first stint at Paramount.

Survivors embody his spouse, Bonnie (they married in 1968); daughter Debi; sons Gary, a producer (The Follow), and Greg, a author and producer (Eight Is Sufficient, Falcon Crest); sisters Judy (an actress) and Cindy; 5 grandchildren; and 9 great-grandchildren.

Companies had been held Aug. 22 at St. Martin of Excursions Catholic Church in Brentwood.