Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticRobert Garland, a Hollywood screenwriter who began his writing career with episodes of such popular sitcoms as That Girl and Sanford and Son before going on to write the big-screen hits The Electric Horseman and No Way Out, died Nov.
21 in Baltimore. He was 83.His son, Michael Garland, said the cause of death was complications from dementia.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Garland got his first job in television as a talent coordinator for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1969, when the program was based in New York.
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