Charlie Hauck Dies: ‘Maude’, ‘Frasier’, ‘Home Improvement’ Writer Was 79; “Nobody Made Me Laugh Harder”, Recalls Norman Lear
Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticCharlie Hauck, a writer-producer who penned scripts for some of TV’s most iconic sitcoms – Maude, Frasier, Home Improvement, One Day At A Time and, under a pseudonym as a favor to Larry Gelbert, one episode of M*A*S*H – died at his Los Angeles home on Saturday, Nov. 14, of complications from pancreatic cancer.