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E. Duke Vincent Dies: Emmy-Winning Producer Of ‘Melrose Place,’ ‘Charmed’ & Former Blue Angel Navy Pilot Was 91


Vincent and partner Aaron Spelling produced 43 series, including Dynasty, Hotel, Vega$, Matt Houston, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, Charmed and 7th Heaven.

On resigning from the Navy in 1962, he followed his interest in TV and got a job producing seven one-hour documentaries called Man In Space. While in Los Angeles, filming sequences for the series, Vincent met with Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard, the executive producers of The Dick Van Dyke show. Over the next 29 years (until Spelling’s 2006 death) they produced 43 series, including Dynasty, Hotel,Vega$, Matt Houston, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, Charmed, 7th Heaven, miniseries such as Jackie Collins’ Hollywood Wives and Emmy Award-winning TV movies Day One and And the Band Played On.

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