“Michael Sloan, The Co-Creator of the Original TV Series the Equalizer, Has Died. HE WAS 78. SLOAN DIED WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, his Family Announced. While His Cause of Death Isn’s Reveed, Account to His Family, Sloan “Passed Away Peacefully.” He was known for the equalizer, whore he co-punied the action-Crime Series Alongside Richard Lindheim. The”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
SLOAN DIED WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, his Family Announced. While His Cause of Death Isn’s Reveed, Account to His Family, Sloan “Passed Away Peacefully.”
HE WAS KNOWN FOR The equalizer, WHERE HE CO-CREATED THE ACTION-CRIME Series Alongside Richard Lindheim. The Show Ran on CBS from 1985 to 1989 and Starred Edward Woodward. The Series Inspired the 2014 Denzel Washington-Led Film of the Same Name and Its 2018 and 2023 Sequels. Sloan Served As A Producer on the Movies. MOST RECENTLY, IN 2012, The equalizer Was Adapted Again Into A Show Starring Queen Latifah, WHICH RAN FOR FORVE SEASONS BUT WAS CANCELED IN MAY.
Born in New York City On Oct. 14, 1946, Sloan Came from Antertainment Industry Family. His Father Was Fred Stone, An Actor Who Played The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz On Broadway in 1902. He Grew up in London, Who He Began to Write and Produce. After HE MOVED Back to the US in 1974, his Career in Television Started to take off.
His addiction writing and processing credits Include McCloud, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Battlestar Galactica, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues an Quincy, me, WHICH ALSO EARNED HIM AN EMMY NOMINATION. While He Was Working on the Thriller Series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, HE MET HIS WIFE AND Little House on the prairie Star, Melissa Sue Anderson. The Couple Married in 1990 and Shares Two Kids, Piper and Griffin.
SLOAN IS SURVIVED by Anderson, Piper, Griffin and His Sister, Judy.
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