Sam Simon

Samuel Michael "Sam" Simon (June 6, 1955 – March 8, 2015) was an  director, producer, writer, boxing manager and philanthropist. While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. He submitted a spec script for the sitcom Taxi, which was produced, and later became the series' showrunner. Over the next few years, Simon wrote and produced for Cheers, It's Garry Shandling's Show and other programs, as well as writing the 1991 film The Super.

Simon at the 2008 World Series of Poker
Born	Samuel Michael Simon June 6, 1955 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	March 8, 2015 (aged 59) Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, U.S.
Cause of death	Colorectal cancer
Occupation	Director, producer, writer, boxing manager, philanthropist
Years active	1979–2015
Spouse(s)	Jennifer Tilly (1984–1991; divorced) Jami Ferrell (2000; divorced)
Partner(s)	Kate Porter

Simon at the 2008 World Series of Poker

Samuel Michael Simon
June 6, 1955
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

March 8, 2015 (aged 59)
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, U.S.

Colorectal cancer

Director, producer, writer, boxing manager, philanthropist

1979–2015

Jennifer Tilly (1984–1991; divorced)
Jami Ferrell (2000; divorced)

Kate Porter

American

In 1989 he developed the animated sitcom The Simpsons with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks. Simon assembled the show's first writing team, co-wrote eight episodes and has been credited with "developing [the show's] sensibility".^[1] Simon's relationship with Groening was strained and he left the show in 1993, negotiating a pay-off which saw him receive tens of millions of dollars from the show's revenue each year. The following year he co-created The George Carlin Show, before later working as a director on shows such as The Drew Carey Show. Simon won nine Primetime Emmy Awards for his television work.

Simon turned to fields outside television in his later years. He regularly appeared on Howard Stern's radio shows, managed boxer Lamon Brewster and helped guide him to the World Boxing Organization Heavyweight Championship in 2004 and was a regular poker player and six-time in the money finisher at the World Series of Poker. Simon ran the Sam Simon Foundation, which rescues and trains stray dogs and funded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel the MY Sam Simon, which was named after him. He had been married twice, including to the actress Jennifer Tilly, and was engaged at the time of his death. Following a profile of Simon on 60 Minutes in 2007, CBS writer Daniel Schorn wrote in an online article that Simon was "perhaps the Renaissance man of the baffling, uncertain age we live in."^[2]

Simon was diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer in 2012 and given only three to six months to live. He donated much of his fortune to charity. He died on March 8, 2015.

This Information is reprinted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Simon

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