Dan Wilcox Dies: ‘M*A*S*H’ Writer-Producer Who Co-Penned Series Finale & Worked On Early ‘Sesame Street’ Was 82
deadline.comDan Wilcox, an Emmy-winning writer, producer and longtime union man who penned dozens of M*A*S*H episodes including co-writing its record-setting series finale and had many other TV credits including Sesame Street and Fernwood/America 2-Nite, has died.
He was 82. His niece, Julie Merson Rothenberg, told the WGA that he died February 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
No cause was given. A six-decade WGA member and longtime former board member who was active in the 2007-08 strike, Wilcox was a fierce champion of unions and equal rights.
In 2017, he received the Morgan Cox Award in recognition of his exemplary service to the Guild. WGAW President Howard A. Rodman said at the time: “Dan Wilcox has been, in a sustained and deeply moving way, a voice for the voiceless.
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