Sam Simon (1955-2015): died the producer who made the Simpsons … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The name of Sam Simon is not the first that comes to mind when talking about the Simpsons , the series that has become one of the most enduring phenomena of American television. We remember the first cartoonist Matt Groening, who created the unmistakable style of the characters, or the producer James L. Brooks, a veteran of television and film, author of Terms of Endearment or Best It Gets .

                     

                         But for many of the writers and producers connected to the series, the family of the fictional city of Springfield would not be what it is without the intervention of Sam Simon, who died Sunday at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, of colorectal cancer.

One of the writers of the series, Ken Levine, once wrote that the true creative force of the series had been Simon – “the tone, the narration, the level of humor emerged all under the direction of Sam,” quotes magazine Variety in your obituary. In 2001, another writer Jon Vitti, told the New York Times that it was “for Sam that all we wrote.”

As a producer and co-writer, Simon developed the Simpsons as a separate series in 1989 with Groening and Brooks, expanding the animated interludes that the designer and cartoonist created for the sitcom actress Tracey Ullman in 1987. The role of Simon was to make the visual style unusual and the verrinosa social satire Groening in a format that works over episodes of 25 minutes in prime time.

It was he who introduced much of the style book Simpsons , insisting that there was a wide range of supporting characters, the actors who gave voice to the characters gravassem dialogues together in studio, and the writers worked as a team. Essentially, they were techniques that Simon had learned to work in the hit comedy series such as Taxi and Cheers – One Bar . Interestingly, the Simpsons brought him back to where he started animation career in the 1970s, writing for such series as the Super-Mouse and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

However, Simon was only four years in the team Simpsons , during which won seven Emmy awards for her work in the series and was co- author of a dozen episodes. Assuming that could be difficult to work with you, Simon fell out repeatedly with Matt Groening – from the beginning of production, because he thought the show was so card off the deck would be lucky to be renewed beyond the first season of episodes. Its output in 1993 was not peaceful, but the financial arrangement output made him rich beyond their dreams, but continued to be credited as executive producer and to receive royalties from the relay and editing video in the series, which celebrated 25 years of continuous emission in 2014.

The fortune constantly renewed with each new check of free allowed Simon to become a philanthropist. Donated millions of dollars to animal welfare organizations (such as PETA and Sea Shepherd Society, against whaling) and created a foundation to provide the disabled help dogs, with special attention to war veterans. Upon learning of his diagnosis of colon cancer, decided that all money received from free of Simpsons would be donated to charitable causes.