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William Frederick Blinn (born July 21, 1937) is American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 and television producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
.

in Toledo, Ohio
Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio. Named after Toledo, Spain, it is located on the western end of Lake Erie, on the Michigan border....
, Blinn began his career in television in the 1960s. As a screenwriter, Blinn has written episodes of Rawhide
Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide was a television western series that aired on the U.S. network CBS from 1959 in television to 1966 in television. The show starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood....
, Here Come the Brides
Here Come the Brides

Here Come the Brides is a television series that aired on the American Broadcasting Company television network from September 25 1968 to April 3 1970....
, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
, The Rookies
The Rookies

The Rookies is an United States Police procedural that aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department ....
, and Fame
Fame (1982 TV series)

Fame is an United States television series that ran from 1982 to 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the Fame that tells the stories of the students and faculty at the "Fiorello H....
 (where he also served as executive producer
Executive producer

The title of executive producer , or executive in charge of production, typically describes a film producer, television producer, radio producer, record producer, or similar Stakeholder who doesn't participate in the technical operations of the production process, but who is still responsible for the success of a project....
). In 1971, Blinn wrote the screenplay for the television movie
Television movie

A television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network....
 Brian's Song
Brian's Song

Brian's Song is a 1971 in film made-for-TV movie, recalling the details of the life of Brian Piccolo , a White American American football player stricken with terminal cancer, and his friendship with African American Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers , who helps him through the difficult strugg...
 for which he won an Emmy
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 and Peabody Award.






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William Frederick Blinn (born July 21, 1937) is American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 and television producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
.

Biography


Career

Born in Toledo, Ohio
Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio. Named after Toledo, Spain, it is located on the western end of Lake Erie, on the Michigan border....
, Blinn began his career in television in the 1960s. As a screenwriter, Blinn has written episodes of Rawhide
Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide was a television western series that aired on the U.S. network CBS from 1959 in television to 1966 in television. The show starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood....
, Here Come the Brides
Here Come the Brides

Here Come the Brides is a television series that aired on the American Broadcasting Company television network from September 25 1968 to April 3 1970....
, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
, The Rookies
The Rookies

The Rookies is an United States Police procedural that aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department ....
, and Fame
Fame (1982 TV series)

Fame is an United States television series that ran from 1982 to 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the Fame that tells the stories of the students and faculty at the "Fiorello H....
 (where he also served as executive producer
Executive producer

The title of executive producer , or executive in charge of production, typically describes a film producer, television producer, radio producer, record producer, or similar Stakeholder who doesn't participate in the technical operations of the production process, but who is still responsible for the success of a project....
). In 1971, Blinn wrote the screenplay for the television movie
Television movie

A television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network....
 Brian's Song
Brian's Song

Brian's Song is a 1971 in film made-for-TV movie, recalling the details of the life of Brian Piccolo , a White American American football player stricken with terminal cancer, and his friendship with African American Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers , who helps him through the difficult strugg...
 for which he won an Emmy
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 and Peabody Award. He won a second Emmy in 1977 for his work on the miniseries
Miniseries

A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes....
 Roots
Roots (TV miniseries)

Roots is a 1977 in television American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations....
. Blinn also created the series Starsky and Hutch
Starsky and Hutch

Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s United States television series that consisted of a 90-minute television pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30 1975 and May 15 1979 on the American Broadcasting Company network; distributed by Sony P...
, and later produced the 2004 film of the same name
Starsky & Hutch (film)

Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film/action film Film director by Todd Phillips. The film stars Ben Stiller as David Starsky and Owen Wilson as Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and is a Parody film adaptation of the original television series Starsky & Hutch from the 1970s....
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In addition to screenwriting, Blinn has also produced several television series and television movies including Aaron's Way
Aaron's Way

Aaron's Way was a family drama series that ran in 1988 in television on American television, starring Merlin Olsen as Aaron Miller, the husband and father of an Amish family, which he moved to California and had to adapt to technology and situations that Amish traditionally shun....
, Polly: Comin' Home!, and Pensacola: Wings of Gold
Pensacola: Wings of Gold

Pensacola: Wings of Gold was a syndicated television series based at the famous Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida. It starred James Brolin and Sandra Hess....
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