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William Frederick Blinn (July 21, 1937 – October 22, 2020) was an American screenwriter and television producer.
Writer: Fame. William Blinn was born in Toledo, Ohio. After graduating from high school, and then to college, he moved to California, where he started his career as a television writer and producer in the 1960s.
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Oct 24, 2020 · William Blinn, the two-time Emmy-winning screenwriter of “Brian’s Song” and “Roots,” died on Thursday, his daughter Anneliese Johnson confirmed to Variety. He was 83.
Oct 25, 2020 · Writer William Blinn, accepting the WGA’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award in 2009, has died at 83.
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Oct 25, 2020 · William Blinn, an Emmy-winning screenwriter and producer who wrote for the landmark TV projects “Brian’s Song” and “Roots,” created the detective series “Starsky & Hutch” and co-wrote the...
Oct 24, 2020 · William Blinn, the two-time Emmy winner who penned the Prince-starring 'Purple Rain,' created 'Starsky & Hutch' and wrote for such landmark TV projects as 'Roots,' 'Fame' and 'Brian's Song,' has...
William Frederick Blinn (July 21, 1937 — October 22, 2020) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. Blinn wrote episodes of Rawhide, Here Come the Brides, Gunsmoke, The Rookies, and Fame. He won two Emmy Awards. Blinn died on October 22, 2020 in Burbank, California at the age of 83.
