Long before he won 10 Emmys for three of the most iconic shows of all time, Steven Bochco, who died Sunday at 74 after a long battle with leukemia, received his first nomination for penning a 1971 episode of “Columbo” — and was “conned” into believing he would win.
Besides Bochco, “Murder by the Book,” the Season 1 premiere, boasted another burgeoning titan, Steven Spielberg, who directed it. The episode was up for Best Drama Writing in a three-nominee field against two other “Columbo” hours: “Suitable for Framing” by Jackson Gillis, and “Death Lends a Hand” by creators Richard Levinson and William Link. It was Levinson who kept reassuring Bochco that he would win, Bochco told the Archive of American Television in 2012.
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Besides Bochco, “Murder by the Book,” the Season 1 premiere, boasted another burgeoning titan, Steven Spielberg, who directed it. The episode was up for Best Drama Writing in a three-nominee field against two other “Columbo” hours: “Suitable for Framing” by Jackson Gillis, and “Death Lends a Hand” by creators Richard Levinson and William Link. It was Levinson who kept reassuring Bochco that he would win, Bochco told the Archive of American Television in 2012.
See In Memoriam 2018: Remember the stars we lost this year
“He kept saying to me, ‘You’re going to win. Yours is the best one. Yours is the best, you’re going to win,...
- 4/2/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Emmy-nominated U.S. TV writer Jackson Gillis has died from pneumonia at the age of 93.
Gillis, whose career spanned more than four decades, passed away in Moscow, Idaho on 19 August, his daughter Candida tells the New York Times.
His small screen credits include episodes of Lassie, Superman, Spin and Marty, I Spy, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Lost in Space, Perry Mason, for which he was also associate producer, and Columbo, which earned him an Emmy nomination in 1972.
He is survived by his daughter, Candida Gillis, and a grandson.
Gillis, whose career spanned more than four decades, passed away in Moscow, Idaho on 19 August, his daughter Candida tells the New York Times.
His small screen credits include episodes of Lassie, Superman, Spin and Marty, I Spy, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Lost in Space, Perry Mason, for which he was also associate producer, and Columbo, which earned him an Emmy nomination in 1972.
He is survived by his daughter, Candida Gillis, and a grandson.
- 8/30/2010
- WENN
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