TVSquad

A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away.

• Malvin Wald: He is best known for writing the screenplay to The Naked City, which later became a TV series and pretty much spawned later police dramas such as NYPD Blue and Law and Order. He also wrote for The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, Daktari, Combat, Playhouse 90, and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. He died at age 90 in California.

• John Bliss: He played Principal Pal on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Mr. Pickering on Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and also appeared in Dallas, Joey, Get Smart, Father Murphy, as well as the movies Intolerable Cruelty, Art School Confidential, and The Thing with Two Heads. He died of an abdominal aneurysm at age 77 in Los Angeles.
  
  
• J. Paul Huntsman: He was the post-production coordinator on the pilot episode of Crime Story, and was a sound editor on several movies over the years, including The Firm, The Karate Kid, The Illusionist, Starsky & Hutch, Bring on the Night, Manhunter, The Peacemaker, Pay It Forward, K-PAX, Thief, Eddie and the Cruisers, Major League, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and dozens of others. He died of cancer at age 55 in Glendale, CA.
  
  
• Eva Dahlbeck: She was a regular on the Swedish series The Markurells of Wadkoping and appeared on several episodes of Foreign Intrigue, as well as several Ingmar Bergman films. She later became a well-known writer. She died of Alzheimer's complications at age 87 in Stockholm.
  
  
• Gayne Rescher: He was a cinematographer on several big screen movies such as Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and Murder, Inc, and TV movies and miniseries such as The Day After, Get Smart Again, Space, Murder Me, Murder You, Lucky/Chances, Windmills of the Gods, Pearl, Something For Joey, and many others. He died at age 83 in Gig Harbor, WA.