Ted Mann, Writer and Producer on ‘Deadwood’ and ‘NYPD Blue,’ Dies at 72

Ted Mann, the Emmy-winning television writer and producer who served in both capacities on “Deadwood” and “NYPD Blue,” died Sept. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 72.

His daughter Elizabeth reported that he died after a battle with lung cancer.

Born in Canada, Mann began his career as an editor for the National Lampoon in the 1970s, eventually transitioning into the label’s television projects as a writer on the TV special “Disco Beaver from Outer Space” and the short-lived “Animal House” spinoff, “Delta House.” In the 1980s, he wrote the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “O.C. and Stiggs,” which was based on his National Lampoon characters,…