Sherry Coben, a writer-producer greatest often called the creator of Kate & Allie, has died. She was 71.

Coben died on Oct. 16 in her residence in New Milford, New Jersey after a battle with most cancers, her household advised The Hollywood Reporter.

Kate & Allie aired for six seasons on CBS from 1984 to 1989 and was shot within the legendary Ed Sullivan Theater in New York Metropolis, which now homes The Late Present. The present, created by Coben, starred Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin as two divorced moms who reside collectively and lift their kids in the identical residence.

Earlier than Kate & Allie, Coben wrote for the ABC cleaning soap opera Ryan’s Hope. She started her profession within the artwork division at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, doing graphics, units, illustration and animation for native programming and The Mike Douglas Present. She then labored as a contract artist for tv reveals and magazines in New York Metropolis, together with NBC kids’s program Sizzling Hero Sandwich.

Coben additionally served as a writer-producer on the CBS tv collection Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V. and creator-writer of the online collection Little Ladies, Massive Vehicles.

Exterior of labor, Coben usually mentored younger writers, performers and artists. She is survived by her husband, movie editor Patrick McMahon, and her daughters, Kaley McMahon and Jama McMahon.

Arlene Winnick, a veteran Hollywood publicist who labored with shoppers starting from Common Studios Hollywood to the TCL Chinese language Theatre over a three-decade-plus profession, has died. She was 77.

Winnick died Oct. 1 in Beverly Hills from an prolonged sickness, in accordance with publicist Jerry Digney, who credited her with being an integral a part of Solters & Digney and its successor, Digney & Co. Public Relations.

Winnick labored within the leisure trade for greater than 30 years. Early in her profession, she helped pioneer advertising and publicity campaigns for the rising dwelling video trade, which featured wildly profitable train tapes starring Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Through the years, she additionally labored as a marketing consultant with a number of impartial PR companies and the Digney staff on a lot of its leisure accounts, together with Common Studios Hollywood, Madame Tussauds Hollywood and Las Vegas, Warner Bros. Studio Tour, the Carousel of Hope gala, TCL Chinese language Theatres Hollywood and Ripley’s Imagine It or Not.

Amongst her last collaborations had been handprint-footprint ceremonies on the TCL Chinese language Theatre for James Cameron and Jon Landau, Keanu Reeves and the solid of the Avengers movies.

Along with her work in Hollywood, Winnick had greater than 35 years’ PR expertise dealing with PR and particular occasions within the meals/restaurant and journey/tourism arenas on behalf of Raffles L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, BeautifulPlaces, Le Meridien Beverly Hills (now the SLS lodge), RanchWeb, Paradisio de la Bonita, Ceiba del Mar and Pacifica Holistic Resort and Spa (Mexico), Wyndam Bel Age (now The London West Hollywood), Madison and Mulholland (luxurious occasions and movie star gifting), Lake Arrowhead Resort + Spa, Johnnie Walker and Westlake Village Inn.

Since 2012, Winnick had additionally been a senior author at L.A. Arts On-line, the place she reported on and reviewed greater than 50 occasions and exhibits. She was additionally a volunteer at Venture Angel Meals. Winnick was a local of Nice Neck, N.Y.

She was preceded in demise by her accomplice of 20 years, Richard Schulenberg. Survivors embody two sons, Jon and Andrew Gladston; a brother, Larry Beer; a daughter-in-law, Leslie; two stepdaughters, Katie and Amy, along with her husband Chris; and 7 grandchildren, Jacob, Talia, Harper, Lucy, Elenor, Kalan and Pono.

John Lasell, a personality actor identified for roles on Darkish Shadows and The Twilight Zone, has died. He was 95.

Lasell, of Los Angeles, died Oct. 4, in keeping with a household discover.

Lasell appeared repeatedly on the Sixties camp horror cleaning soap Darkish Shadows. He performed Dr. Peter Guthrie, a vampire hunter. Jonathan Frid performed vampire Barnabus Collins within the present that over the course of its four-year run developed a cult teenage following.

Lasell additionally performed John Wilkes Sales space in a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone. He additionally held roles in two 1961 episodes of Wagon Prepare, and an episode of Hazel that very same yr. He appeared in a 1962 episode of Route 66, a 1964 episode of Flipper, and 1966 episodes of Because the World Turns and Perry Mason. In 1972, he appeared within the tv Mission: Inconceivable collection, in addition to an episode of Night time Gallery and Mannix. He additionally confirmed up in an episode of Dallas in 1984. His final display screen credit, per IMDB, occurred in 1985.

In 1960, Lasell performed a fireplace management officer in a Broadway manufacturing of Roman Candle.

John Whitin Lasell Jr. was born Nov. 6, 1928. He was married thrice, together with to Patricia Smith.

Nicholas Pryor, the busy character actor who portrayed Tom Cruise’s father in Dangerous Enterprise and Kathleen Robertson’s dad on Beverly Hills, 90210 throughout a profession that spanned seven a long time, has died. He was 89.

Pryor died Monday of most cancers at his house in Wilmington, North Carolina, his spouse, actress Christine Belford, informed The Hollywood Reporter.

In a notice to be delivered to THR after his dying, he wrote: “Nicholas Pryor was enormously grateful to have been, for practically 70 years, a working actor.”

From 1997-2002, Pryor performed the previous spy Victor Collins on the Common Hospital spinoff Port Charles, culminating a protracted profession in daytime cleaning soap operas that included stints on The Secret Storm, The Fringe of Evening, Love Is a Many Splendored Factor, All My Kids and One other World.

Pryor recurred on Fox’s Beverly Hills, 90210 as A. Milton Arnold, the chancellor of California College and father of Robertson’s Claire Arnold, from 1994-97. And he was the daddy of Paula Devicq’s character, Kirsten Bennett, on one other Fox sequence, Social gathering of 5.

Earlier, he performed vice principal Jack Feldspar on the 1987-88 NBC drama The Bronx Zoo, created by Gary David Goldberg and starring Edward Asner.

On the large display, Pryor was Barbara Feldon’s hapless husband in Michael Ritchie’s Smile (1975); the pipe-smoking faculty professor who rides with Michael Sarrazin in an AC Cobra in Charles Bail‘s The Gumball Rally (1976); the museum director who meets his finish in a practice yard in Damien: Omen II (1978); and the daddy of Robert Downey Jr.’s drug-addled Julian in Much less Than Zero (1987).

Nicholas David Probst was born in Baltimore on Jan. 28, 1935. His father, Stanley, labored within the pharmaceutical business.

Whereas attending the all-boys Gilman Faculty in Baltimore and Yale College, Pryor honed his appearing abilities on the stage with the Drummond Gamers in Baltimore, the Camden Hills Theatre in Maine, the Oregon Shakespeare Pageant and the Star Theatre in Minneapolis.

After graduating from faculty in 1956, the lanky Pryor appeared in 4 Broadway performs in 1957-59: with Karl Malden in The Egghead, with Joan Bennett in Love Me a Little, with Leon Ames in Howie and with Diana Douglas in The Highest Tree. The 4, nonetheless, lasted a complete of 56 performances.

He made his first cleaning soap appearances in 1958 in The Brighter Day and in 1959 in Younger Dr. Malone. In 1964, he joined NBC’s One other World as an unique castmember, however his character, Tom Baxter, was killed off six months later. He then was employed on a primetime cleaning soap, CBS’ The Nurses.

Pryor was top-billed as a person within the midst of a midlife disaster in his film debut, The Method We Dwell Now (1970), and he adopted that with turns in Man on a Swing (1974), The Joyful Hooker (1975), The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) and Airplane! (1980).

He returned to Broadway within the ’70s with substitute roles in That Championship Season and Thieves.

Along with having his Porsche 928 wrecked by Cruise’s Joel Goodsen in Dangerous Enterprise (1983), Pryor additionally confirmed up in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), Morgan Stewart’s Coming House (1987), Pacific Heights (1990), Hoffa (1992), Sliver (1993), Hail Caesar (1994), The Chamber (1996), Molly (1999), Collateral Harm (2002), The Checklist (2007), The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay — Half 1 (2014), Physician Sleep (2019) and Halloween Kills (2021).

And with greater than 170 appearing credit on IMDb, he was seen on TV in dozens of exhibits, from Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Eight Is Sufficient, M*A*S*H and Little Home on the Prairie to Dallas, St. Elsewhere, L.A. Legislation, The West Wing and NYPD Blue, and within the miniseries The Adams Chronicles, Washington: Behind Closed Doorways and East of Eden.

He and Belford, his fourth spouse, had been married in July 1993, and so they labored collectively on Beverly Hills, 90210. He is also survived by his daughter, Stacey, and his grandchildren, Auguste and Avril.

Allan Blye, an Emmy-winning comedy author for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Van Dyke and Firm, has died. He was 87.

Blye died Friday morning at his residence in Palm Desert, California, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered. His reason for loss of life wasn’t instantly accessible.

Born on July 19, 1937, in Winnipeg, Canada, Blye went from being a toddler soloist in his synagogue’s choir to turning into a featured singer on selection radio reveals all throughout Canada.

In his early 20s, he finally caught Fred Rogers’ consideration and went on to originate the position of Captain Blye on MisteRogers (which later turned Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood) from 1961 to 1965.

In 1968, Tom and Dick Smothers satisfied Blye to maneuver to Los Angeles to put in writing and produce their new present, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. It was there that he labored alongside younger comedians akin to Steve Martin, Bob Einstein, Rob Reiner and Carl Gottlieb. Blye additionally helped earn the present an Emmy for greatest writing in a range comedy tv sequence in 1969.

Blye later went on to put in writing and produce quite a few different reveals, together with The Ray Stevens Present, The Andy Williams Present, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Present, That’s My Mama, Van Dyke and Firm, The Bobby Vinton Present, Weird and Tremendous Dave. He additionally co-wrote a number of TV specials, akin to Elvis Presley’s 1968 Comeback Particular.

With the assistance of his producing companion Bob Einstein, Blye gained his second Emmy for greatest writing in a range comedy tv sequence in 1973 for The Van Dyke and Firm Present.

In 1972, Blyd established the Synagogue for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and went on to turn into their Cantor Emeritus. All through his profession, he additionally helped elevate hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for instructional causes within the Jewish neighborhood.

Allan is survived by his spouse Rita; brother Garry Blye (Susan); six youngsters, Debra, Jeffrey, Rob, Kate, Charlie and Sam; and three grandchildren, Julian, Jeremy and Scarlett Blye.