George Schenck, a television writer and producer for the beloved long-running series NCIS, died peacefully on August 3 at his home in Brentwood, California. He was 82.
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His death was announced by his family.
Schenck was the son of the late film and television producer Aubrey Schenck and the great-nephew of the legendary Nicholas and Joseph Schenck, who headed MGM and 20th Century Fox during Hollywood's Golden Age and were among the industry's most influential figures in the first half of the 20th century.
Schenck was a producing partner with Frank Cardea for over 40 years, and his productive credits stretch back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, on such popular series as Fantasy Island (1981); Bring 'Em Back Alive, the 1982 adventure series starring Bruce Boxleitner; and the 1984 detective series Crazy Like a Fox, starring Jack Warden and John Rubinstein as a father-son team of detectives.
