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Jun 7, 2021 · John Sacret Young, a writer, producer, director and author who worked on such series as China Beach, The West Wing and Firefly Lane, has died . He was 75. A spokesperson for his family said Young ...
Jun 26, 2021 · 217 June 2021 | Steve Marble | Los Angeles Times John Sacret Young, a writer and director who gave TV viewers a hellish portrait of warfare and its life-altering consequences in “China Beach” and earned Emmy nominations for his work on “The West Wing,” has died at his home in Brentwood. A skilled and prolific…
Jun 7, 2021 · John Sacret Young, the Emmy-award nominated writer and producer who co-created the Vietnam War drama China Beach has died. The creator, who also worked on shows like The West Wing and Firefly Lane ...
Jun 24, 2021 · John Sacret Young, the writer and TV and movie producer best known for being the co-creator of the pioneering TV show, China Beach, died June 3 at age 75 from brain cancer. Young and William Broyles Jr.–a writer and editor and former U.S. Marine who served in the Vietnam War–conceived of the idea of a weekly TV drama series centering on a ...
Jun 7, 2021 · John Sacret Young, a writer, producer, director and author who worked on such series as China Beach, The West Wing and Firefly Lane, has died . He was 75. A spokesperson for his family said Young ...
John Sacret Young ’69’s office at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles is as cluttered as he left it, the walls crammed with photographs, the desk still brimming with papers, the shelves full of journals he kept and the books he read for pleasure or research — as well as a few he wrote himself. His widow, Claudia Sloan, says ...
Jul 22, 2021 · John Sacret Young—the show’s other creator, whose cousin died in combat in Vietnam—added that Broyles’ original pitch was a half-hour comedy set in a hotel in Saigon. But Young had a ...
