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Sheldon Pinchuk Dies: Producer Of ‘Reality Bites’, ‘Any Day Now’ & Numerous TV Movies Was 84
Sheldon Pinchuk, partner in the Finnegan-Pinchuk Company, which produced 40 TV movies during the genre's heyday, died Aug. 28 of Parkinson’s disease.
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. 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. Pinchuk is survived by Barbara, his wife of 57 years, his 3 children, including TV executive Julie McNamara, 4 grandchildren and a slew of friends and former colleagues who remember him as a kind and graceful man known for his great wit, intelligence and integrity.
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