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Samuel Michael Simon (June 6, 1955 – March 8, 2015) was an American television producer and animal rights activist who co-developed the television series The Simpsons . While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. Simon submitted a spec script for ...
Mar 9, 2015 · In 2011, his Sam Simon Foundation started a program that provides low-income families with free vegan meals. Asked whether he was imposing his own vegan diet on those his charity served, Mr. Simon ...
Mar 9, 2015 · Sam Simon, a co-creator of "The Simpsons" and animal-rights advocate who made a midlife career shift into philanthropy and channeled much of his personal fortune into social causes, has died. Simon died Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., his agent, Andy Patman said. He was 59. He was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer in 2011. After stints writing for "Taxi," ''Cheers" and "The ...
Sam Simon was a TV and film producer and writer, best known for creating and showrunning The Simpsons. He also worked on The Tracey Ullman Show, Cheers, and Shanghai Noon, and died in 2015 from colorectal cancer.
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Sam Simon, the co-creator of the long-running animated series "The Simpsons," has died following a battle with colorectal cancer, according to a statement released by his foundation Monday. He was 59.
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Sam Simon was a producer and writer of The Simpsons and other shows. He died in 2015 from colorectal cancer and left a large fortune to animal charities.
Mar 9, 2015 · Sam Simon was a TV producer and writer who helped create the hit animated sitcom “The Simpsons” in 1989. He also became a philanthropist and animal rights activist, giving away most of his fortune before his death from colon cancer in 2015.