Sheldon Pinchuk Dies: Producer Of ‘Reality Bites’, ‘Any Day Now’ & Numerous TV Movies Was 84
deadline.comSheldon Pinchuk, partner in the Finnegan-Pinchuk Company, which produced more than 40 TV movies during the genre’s 1980s-90s heyday as well as TV series Any Day Now and Northern Exposure and features Reality Bites and The Fabulous Baker Boys, died Aug.
28 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Calabasas. He was 84. After getting a Bachelor’s and law degrees from UCLA, Pinchuk began his career as a business affairs executive at NBC.
While working there, he earned an additional degree from UCLA’s film school and segued into a programming role. Stints at David Dortort’s company and as Head of Development at Warner Brothers followed before Pinchuk made another Hollywood career shift, becoming an agent at CAA.
There, he represented the husband-and-wife producing team of William and Patricia Finnegan. Based on his lifelong love of aviation, Pinchuk pitched them an idea that became his first TV movie, the 1984 Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac, and the trio launched a producing partnership that flourished for more than two decades.
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