‘Married With Children’ Producer Ron Leavitt Dies

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Ron Leavitt, the producer/writer who brought us ‘Married With Children’, has died at the age of 60-years-old in Los Angeles. Leavitt died from lung cancer.

A native of Brooklyn, Leavitt began his television career in the 1970s writing episodes for laffers “Happy Days,” “Laverne & Shirley” and “The Bad News Bears.”

In 1987, Leavitt co-created “Married … With Children” with Michael G. Moye. He went on to exec produce and write or co-write almost 150 episodes of the show, which became the second-longest running sitcom on Fox, behind “The Simpsons.” The skein was nominated seven times for Emmys.

The world is a better place because of Ron’s creation of Al and Peg Bundy.

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