One of the founders, with Danny's son Tony Thomas and Witt's eventual wife Susan Harris, for the extremely busy production company Witt/ Thomas /Harris, and their TV hits such as GOLDEN GIRLS, SOAP, and BENSON, along with producing well-regarded movies such as DEAD POET'S SOCIETY and THREE KINGS, as well as the iconic original TV bio-pic BRIAN'S SONG , with a career reaching back into the early 1960s, directing shows such as THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY and HERE COME THE BRIDES... Died of cancer, aged 77.
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