Lou Shaw
{{short description|American producer and screenwriter}}
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|name = Lou Shaw
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| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |89 |2015|02|11 |noage=1}}
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| death_date = {{Death date|2015|02|11}} (aged 89)
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| occupation = Producer, screenwriter
| years_active = 1958–1986
| known_for = Co-creator of Quincy, M.E.
| awards = Edgar Award (1978, Best Episode in a TV Series)
| spouse = Peggy O'Shea{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/people-news/peggy-oshea-head-writer-for-one-life-to-live-dies-at-91-1201174484/|title=Peggy O'Shea, Head Writer for 'One Life to Live,' Dies at 91|first=Carmel|last=Dagan|work=Variety|date=May 12, 2014|access-date=June 7, 2021}}
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Lou Shaw (c. 1925 – February 11, 2015) was an American producer and screenwriter. He was known for co-creating the medical drama Quincy, M.E. with Glen A. Larson.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vs-EDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|title=Quincy M.E., The Television Series|page=12|first=James|last=Rosin|publisher=BearManor Media|date=October 2009|via=Google Books|isbn=9781593934545}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFTZrcyWnswC&pg=PA171|title=Storytellers to the Nation: A History of American Television Writing|page=171-179|first=Tom|last=Stempel|publisher=Syracuse University Press|date=May 1, 1996|via=Google Books|isbn=0815603681}}
Biography
Shaw worked as a writer and producer on multiple television programs from the late 1950s into the mid-1980s. He won an Edgar Award, shared with Tony Lawrence, for the Quincy, M.E. episode "The Thighbone Is Connected To The Knee Bone".{{cite web |url=https://edgarawards.com/category-list-best-episode-in-a-tv-series/ |title=Category List – Best Episode in a TV Series |website=edgarawards.com |accessdate=April 17, 2022}} Shaw wrote the play Worse Than Murder about the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.{{cite news |url=https://www.slorep.org/meet-worse-than-murder-playwright-lou/ |title=Meet "Worse Than Murder" playwright, Lou Shaw!!! |publisher=San Luis Obispo Little Theatre |website=slorep.org |date=January 25, 2008 |accessdate=April 17, 2022}} He had a daughter affected with Down syndrome, wrote a novel featuring a man with Down syndrome titled Honor Thy Son in 1994, and often included people with disabilities in storylines and casting.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99948917/just-part-of-the-crowd/ |title=Just Part of the Crowd |first=Lynne |last=Heffley |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=Weekend 49 |date=July 3, 1997 |accessdate=April 17, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}{{cite book |title=Honor Thy Son |first=Lou |last=Shaw |publisher=Abingdon Press |date=1994 |isbn=978-0687099825}} Shaw was married for a time to Peggy O'Shea, a screenwriter for soap operas, with whom he had a son,{{cite web |url=http://www.welovesoaps.net/2014/05/peggy-oshea-dead-at-91.html |title=Peggy O'Shea Dead at 91 |website=welovesoaps.net |date=May 12, 2014 |first=Roger |last=Newcomb}} Chris, born circa 1953.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99950368/no-coalition-leader-breaks-the-mould/ |title=No coalition leader breaks the mould |first=Jeff |last=Lee |newspaper=Vancouver Sun |page=5 |date=February 20, 2003 |accessdate=April 17, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}
Television credits
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- 12 O'Clock High
- Barnaby Jones
- Beyond Westworld
- Columbo
- The Donna Reed Show
- The Fall Guy
- Half Nelson
- Love, American Style
- Maude
- McCloud
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
- Mission: Impossible
- Naked City
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Virginian
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0789848}}
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Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American television writers
Category:American male television writers
Category:American television producers
Category:20th-century American screenwriters
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