Michael Fisher(1940-2009)
- Producer
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Michael Fisher wrote and produced more than 500 hours of prime-time
television and theatrical motion pictures, including "Spenser For Hire,
"Starsky & Hutch," Fantasy Island," and "Mission Impossible." In 1991
he published his first novel Cries from the Darkness which was soon
followed with a sequel, The Nightmare Man. In 1997 he produced a made
for TV movie in Fiji based on his novels. He was the son of Steve
Fisher, a prolific pulp fiction, film and TV writer whose original
story for the 1943 Cary Grant movie "Destination Tokyo" earned him an
Academy Award nomination in 1944. Michael Fisher was born May 1 1940,
in New York City, to Steve Fisher and Edythe (Seimes) Fisher. He grew
up in Beverly Hills and Van Nuys, California. At 17 he enlisted in the
Navy and was stationed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from 1957 to 1963.
September 1969 he married Helen Mary Brennan. Together they raised
their family in Woodlands Hill, California; Sydney, New South Wales and
Paradise Point, Queensland in Australia; and Rye, New York. He moved to
Peterborough, New Hampshire in 2005.
