Jay Daniel, the two-time Emmy-nominated producer who kept the chaos in check on the popular but difficult to make ABC series Moonlighting and Roseanne, has died. He was 82.
Daniel died Wednesday at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center of a pneumonia-related illness, his wife, artist Vicky Daniel, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Daniel also partnered with Moonlighting creator Glenn Gordon Caron on Clean and Sober, the 1988 Warner Bros. film that starred Michael Keaton, in his first dramatic turn, as a real estate agent struggling with addictions to cocaine and alcohol.
Plus, he lured Moonlighting star Cybill Shepherd back to television by developing her 1995-98 CBS sitcom Cybill, created by Chuck Lorre.
Daniel was with Caron from the very beginning of Moonlighting, which starred Shepherd as Maddie Hayes, owner of the struggling Blue Moon Detective Agency, and Bruce Willis as David Addison, the playful private eye who goes to work for her.
