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William Frederick Blinn (July 21, 1937 – October 22, 2020) was an American screenwriter and television producer.
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.
William Blinn. 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.
Oct 25, 2020 · In 1983, William Blinn, a successful screenwriter, sat down at an Italian restaurant in Hollywood with a young recording artist from Minneapolis who was being pitched as the subject of a...
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...
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 · Emmy Award winner and Starsky & Hutch creator William Blinn has died at the age of 83. Blinn passed from natural causes on Thursday at an assisted living community in Burbank, Calif., his...