Writer Norman Chandler Fox dies at 71
Earned a WGA Award for Cagney & Lacey.
Norman Chandler Fox, a longtime television writer and producer, died July 15, 2010, after falling in his Hollywood Hills home following an operation to save his eyesight. He was 71.
According to news reports, Fox had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for more than 15 years.
Although his television career was relatively brief — his credits spanned from the late 1970s through 1990 — Fox won a Writers Guild of America Award for an episode of the CBS series Cagney & Lacey, earned a Humanitas writing nomination for NBC’s Fame and helped produce the NBC made-for-television movies Brave New World, Tail Gunner Joe and Black Beauty. He also was head writer for 1990 syndicated game show Quiz Kids Challenge.
Later, Fox wrote travel columns for Los Angeles magazine, where he became a contributing editor, and wrote for such publications as The Hollywood Reporter, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine and Bon Appetit. He also served as a syndicated travel columnist for the Copley News Service.
On radio, Fox hosted Travel Talk on KTMS-AM in Santa Barbara and Traveling With Norm Fox, a call-in show on KABC-AM.
He is survived by two brothers and his longtime significant other, Loreen Arbus, a producer, choreographer, former head of Showtime and the daughter of ABC founder Leonard H. Goldenson.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Kady’s Fund in Pasadena, the Rescue Train in Studio City or the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Foundation in Lakewood, Colorado.