{"id":164507,"date":"2025-09-18T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164507\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:43:08","slug":"emmy-winning-st-elsewhere-writer-producer-was-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164507\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy-Winning &#8216;St. Elsewhere&#8217; Writer-Producer Was 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-masius\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-masius\" data-tag=\"john-masius\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Masius<\/a>, the two-time Emmy-winning writer and producer whose credits include <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/st-elsewhere\/\" id=\"auto-tag_st-elsewhere\" data-tag=\"st-elsewhere\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Elsewhere<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/touched-by-an-angel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_touched-by-an-angel\" data-tag=\"touched-by-an-angel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Touched by an Angel<\/a>, Providence and The White Shadow, died peacefully at his Los Angeles home on September 13 after a nine-month decline from ALS. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe news was announced by his wife Ellen Bry, who played Nurse Shirley on St. Elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn on July 30, 1950, in Manhattan, Masius grew up in Scarsdale, NY. He earned degrees from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA Anderson School of Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile working as a waiter at a cafe in Venice, CA, a chance meeting with producer Bruce Paltrow opened the door to what became a remarkable career. It started when he became a production assistant and then a writer and coordinating producer on Paltrow\u2019s 1978-81 CBS show The White Shadow. Soon after, he segued to writing and producing on NBC\u2019s St. Elsewhere. His work on the series earned him two writing Primetime Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe went on to create Touched by an Angel, which ran from 1994\u20132003 on CBS, and Providence, which NBC aired from 1999-2002. His later works included Dead Like Me and HawthoRNe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOver the course of his career, Masius was honored with multiple Writers Guild Awards, Humanitas Prizes as well as a People\u2019s Choice Award and the Peabody Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe is survived by his three children, Hannah, Max and Sam, and by his former wife, Ellen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDEADLINE RELATED VIDEO:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Masius, the two-time Emmy-winning writer and producer whose credits include St. Elsewhere, Touched by an Angel, Providence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,99429,17204,99506,99430],"class_list":["post-164507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-john-masius","tag-novid","tag-st-elsewhere","tag-touched-by-an-angel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}