Sam Strangis Dies: ‘CSI’ & ‘CSI: Miami’ Producer Who Worked On ‘Happy Days’, ‘Brady Bunch’, ‘Batman’ & More Was 95
deadline.comSam Strangis, an Emmy-nominated CSI and CSI: Miami producer and Paramount exec and whose career dates back to classic 1960s and ’70s TV shows including Batman, The Brady Bunch and Happy Days, has died.
He was 95. His family told Deadline that Strangis died July 23 of kidney failure at Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance, CA, but the news had not been reported.
Strangis’ TV career spanned six decades, from directing NBC’s 1957-59 antebellum western The Restless Gun through the wildly successful first two seasons of CBS’ Crime Scene Investigation and spinoff CSI: Miami.
He racked up dozens of credits along the way, also serving as Paramount’s VP of TV Production in the mid-’70s. Born on June 19, 1929, in Tacoma, WA, Strangis began his career as a script supervisor at Revue Studios, leading his directing multiple episodes The Restless Gun.
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