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Boris Sagal (October 18, 1923 – May 22, 1981) was an American
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and
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.


Early life and career

Born in
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,
Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
(now known as
Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
,
Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...
) to a Ukrainian-Jewish family, Sagal immigrated to the United States. Sagal's TV credits include directing episodes of ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Night Gallery'', '' Columbo: Candidate for Crime'', '' Peter Gunn'', and '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''. He also directed the 1972 television adaptation of Percy MacKaye's play '' The Scarecrow'', for PBS. He was nominated for four
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for his direction of the miniseries '' Rich Man, Poor Man'' and, posthumously, '' Masada''. Sagal directed the 1971
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film ''
The Omega Man ''The Omega Man'' (stylized as ''The Ωmega Man'') is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, ba ...
'', starring
Charlton Heston Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film ''The Ten ...
in the lead role, and '' The Dream Makers''. There is a directing fellowship in his name at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Shortly before his death, Sagal's miniseries '' Masada'' aired on ABC.


Personal life

Sagal was Ukrainian-Jewish. He was the father of
Katey Katey is a given name, a variant spelling of Katie and Katy. Notable people with the name include: * Katey Martin (born 1985), New Zealand cricketer *Katey Sagal (born 1954), American actress *Katey Stone (born 1966), American college ice hockey ...
,
Joey Joey may refer to: People *Joey (name) Animals * Joey (marsupial), an infant marsupial * Joey, a Blue-fronted Amazon parrot who was one of the Blue Peter pets Film and television * ''Joey'' (1977 film), an American film directed by Horace ...
, David, Jean and Liz with his first wife, Sara Zwilling, who died in 1975.
Norman Lear Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American producer and screenwriter, who has produced, written, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear is known for many popular 1970s sitcoms, including the multi-award winning '' All in the Fami ...
, who was a friend of Boris and was also made godfather to Katey, introduced Boris and Sara when Sara was his script supervisor while he wrote for '' The Martin and Lewis Show'', as both Katey and Norman acknowledged in 2016. His second wife was Marge Champion, to whom he was married from January 1, 1977, until his death.


Death

Sagal was killed in an accident during production of the
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''
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'', when he was partially decapitated by walking into the tail rotor blades of a
helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribu ...
in the parking lot of the Timberline Lodge in
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. An investigation revealed that he turned the wrong way after exiting the helicopter. He died five hours later in a Portland hospital. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 41315). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.


See also

* List of unusual deaths


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sagal, Boris 1923 births 1981 deaths Accidental deaths in Oregon American film directors American television directors American television producers Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Deaths by decapitation Film people from Dnipro Yale University alumni Yale School of Drama alumni Soviet emigrants to the United States American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Soviet Jews Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1981 Victims of helicopter accidents or incidents in the United States 20th-century American businesspeople