Ted Mann Dead: Writer-Producer on Deadwood, NYPD Blue Was 72

Ted Mann , the Emmy-winning television writer and producer who served in both capacities on “ Deadwood ” and “ NYPD Blue ,” died Sept. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 72.

His daughter Elizabeth reported that he died after a battle with lung cancer.

Born in Canada, Mann began his career as an editor for the National Lampoon in the 1970s, eventually transitioning into the label’s television projects as a writer on the TV special “Disco Beaver from Outer Space” and the short-lived “Animal House” spinoff, “Delta House.” In the 1980s, he wrote the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “O.C. and Stiggs,” which was based on his National Lampoon characters, and then began writing crime television with episodes of “The Street,” “Wiseguy,” and “Miami Vice.”

He also wrote for the Saturday morning cartoon “