Lou Shaw

{{short description|American producer and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person |name = Lou Shaw | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |89 |2015|02|11 |noage=1}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date|2015|02|11}} (aged 89) | death_place = | occupation = Producer, screenwriter | years_active = 1958–1986 | known_for = Co-creator of ''Quincy, M.E.'' | awards = Edgar Award (1978, Best Episode in a TV Series) | spouse = Peggy O'Shea<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/people-news/peggy-oshea-head-writer-for-one-life-to-live-dies-at-91-1201174484/|title=Peggy O'Shea, Head Writer for 'One Life to Live,' Dies at 91|first=Carmel|last=Dagan|work=Variety|date=May 12, 2014|access-date=June 7, 2021}}</ref> }}

'''Lou Shaw''' (c. 1925 – February 11, 2015) was an American producer and screenwriter. He was known for co-creating the medical drama ''Quincy, M.E.'' with Glen A. Larson.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vs-EDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|title=Quincy M.E., The Television Series|page=12|first=James|last=Rosin|publisher=BearManor Media|date=October 2009|via=Google Books|isbn=9781593934545}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFTZrcyWnswC&pg=PA171|title=Storytellers to the Nation: A History of American Television Writing|page=171-179|first=Tom|last=Stempel|publisher=Syracuse University Press|date=May 1, 1996|via=Google Books|isbn=0815603681}}</ref>

==Biography== Shaw worked as a writer and producer on multiple television programs from the late 1950s into the mid-1980s. He won an Edgar Award, shared with Tony Lawrence, for the ''Quincy, M.E.'' episode "The Thighbone Is Connected To The Knee Bone".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edgarawards.com/category-list-best-episode-in-a-tv-series/ |title=Category List – Best Episode in a TV Series |website=edgarawards.com |accessdate=April 17, 2022}}</ref> Shaw wrote the play ''Worse Than Murder'' about the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.slorep.org/meet-worse-than-murder-playwright-lou/ |title=Meet "Worse Than Murder" playwright, Lou Shaw!!! |publisher=San Luis Obispo Little Theatre |website=slorep.org |date=January 25, 2008 |accessdate=April 17, 2022}}</ref> He had a daughter affected with Down syndrome, wrote a novel featuring a man with Down syndrome titled ''Honor Thy Son'' in 1994, and often included people with disabilities in storylines and casting.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99948917/just-part-of-the-crowd/ |title=Just Part of the Crowd |first=Lynne |last=Heffley |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=Weekend 49 |date=July 3, 1997 |accessdate=April 17, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Honor Thy Son |first=Lou |last=Shaw |publisher=Abingdon Press |date=1994 |isbn=978-0687099825}}</ref> Shaw was married for a time to Peggy O'Shea, a screenwriter for soap operas, with whom he had a son,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.welovesoaps.net/2014/05/peggy-oshea-dead-at-91.html |title=Peggy O'Shea Dead at 91 |website=welovesoaps.net |date=May 12, 2014 |first=Roger |last=Newcomb}}</ref> Chris, born circa 1953.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99950368/no-coalition-leader-breaks-the-mould/ |title=No coalition leader breaks the mould |first=Jeff |last=Lee |newspaper=Vancouver Sun |page=5 |date=February 20, 2003 |accessdate=April 17, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Television credits ==  {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *''12 O'Clock High'' *''Barnaby Jones'' *''Beyond Westworld'' *''Columbo'' *''The Donna Reed Show'' *''The Fall Guy'' *''Half Nelson'' *''Love, American Style'' *''Maude'' *''McCloud'' *''The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo'' *''Mission: Impossible'' *''Naked City'' *''Quincy, M.E.'' *''The Virginian'' {{div col end}}

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== External links == *{{IMDb name|0789848}}

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