Alan Sachs died “peacefully” of cancer on Tuesday morning aged 81.
Cotter, who co-created Welcome Pack and is known for producing several Disney Channel projects, died of complications from lymphoma in his hometown. New York City.
He was first diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma 22 years ago and was in remission for several years before the cancer returned.
He had been receiving treatment, but in recent weeks his mantle cell lymphoma took an “aggressive” turn, his wife, talent agent Annette Van Duren, said in a statement. Deadline.
Alan Sachs died “peacefully” at the age of 81 on Tuesday morning after a battle with cancer. Cotter, co-creator of Welcome Back and known for producing several Disney Channel projects, died of complications from lymphoma in his hometown of New York; Photograph taken in 2015 in Los Angeles.
“He was invited to dance at our daughter's wedding in June and walk her down the aisle,” she said. “After that, the chemotherapy stopped working.”
He said Sacks had started receiving palliative care last week before his death.
“He died peacefully at the age of 81 listening to Tibetan music during his last nights,” he shared in his statement.
The film and television producer is known for co-creating the popular '70s show Welcome Back, Kotter, and for working on several projects set in the Los Angeles punk scene of the '80s.
He was born in Brooklyn and began his career in the research department at ABC Television before moving to Los Angeles.
He continued to work as a program executive at ABC and helped create and co-create Welcome Back, Kotter with Gabe Kaplan and Peter Meyerson.
The lives of his Brooklyn high school friends and Mr. He created the hit comedy based on Kaplan's stand-up routine, starring Cotter.
It is based on Kaplan's Holes and Mello-Rolls, which chronicles his days as a teenager at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn.
The film and television producer is known for co-creating the popular '70s show Welcome Back, Kotter, and for working on several projects set in the Los Angeles punk scene of the 1980s; Pictured with Jim Gallagher in Hollywood in February 2009.
He was born in Brooklyn and began his career in the research department at ABC Television before moving to Los Angeles. He continued to work as a program executive at ABC and helped create and co-create Welcome Back, Kotter with Gabe Kaplan and Peter Meyerson; Pictured left to right: Christopher Morgan, Alan Sacks, Kevin Hooks on August 26, 2000 in Pasadena.
The lives of his Brooklyn high school friends and Mr. The hit comedy based on Kaplan's monologue, starring Cotter; Pictured left to right: Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, John Travolta, Ron Palillo, Robert Heggis and Gabe Kaplan in a 1975 television still.
; Pictured left to right: Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, John Travolta, Robert Heggis, Ron Palillo, Gabe Kaplan on television in 1976.
The comedy ran for four seasons from September 1975 to June 1979.
He also worked on Chico and the Man. In 1991, he created and produced the Saturday morning children's show Raiders in the Sky, replacing The Pee-Wee Herman Show on CBS.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Sachs produced films for television, including Women at West Point, Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story, and A Cry for Love.
In the '80s he worked on a project about The Runaways, but when it never got off the ground, Sacks took the footage and worked it into a new plot.
He directed the resulting film, Du-Beat-eo, and in 1984 posted a director working under a tight deadline to complete a film about Runaways member Joan Jett.
The film was set against the backdrop of the hardcore punk scene in Los Angeles and featured punk band Fearn Ray Sharkey and Turf Scratch.
Sacks also wrote and produced the 1986 skate film Thrashin'.
The film starred Josh Brolin, Robert Russler and Pamela Gidley and featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first concert and film appearance.
