John Sacret Young, the writer, producer, director and author behind China Beach, The West Wing and Firefly Lane, died on June 3 in Brentwood, California.
He was 75.Young passed away following a ten-month battle with brain cancer, a spokesperson for his family confirmed.Born on May 24, 1946, he began his work in TV as a researcher on Police Story, embedded with the LAPD, subsequently going on to write three scripts for the series.
Shortly thereafter, he adapted Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War into a CBS miniseries, thereby earning his first Writers Guild Award.For his work as the co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of ABC’s Vietnam War chronicle, China Beach, which examined the experiences of American combat nurses, Young was
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