John Masius, the writer and producer who won two Emmys for his work on St. Elsewhere and created the uplifting network dramas Touched by an Angel and Providence , has died. He was 75.

Masius died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles after a nine-month decline from ALS, his ex-wife, actress Ellen Bry, announced. She played nurse Shirley Daniels on St. Elsewhere .

Masius, who started out in the early 1980s on the CBS drama The White Shadow , also created the 2009-11 TNT medical show Hawthorne , starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan, and he wrote for other series including NBC’s L.A. Law and Showtime’s Dead Like Me during his long career.

John Masius, the writer and producer who won two Emmys for his work on St. Elsewhere and created the uplifting network dramas

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