Directors. 1  Jon Barwise 1983â1985. 2  John Perry 1985â1986, 1993â1999. 3  Thomas Wasow 1986â1987, 2006â2007. 4  John Etchemendy 1990â1993. 5  David Israel c. 1999-2000. 6  Byron Reeves c. 2001â2005. 7  Stanley Peters 2008â2013. 8  Chris Potts 2013âpresent.
On December Jack Cassidy died in a fire at his West Hollywood apartment. He was 49 years old. Cassidy had fallen asleep while smoking and the cigarette had set fire to the couch. The fire then spread throughout the apartment.
Jack Schaefer, a newspaperman turned author of westerns whose best-known work was the novel Shane, died Thursday at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 83 years old. Mr. Schaefer, who had lived in Santa Fe for the last 20 years, died of congestive heart failure, said his wife, Louise Deans Schaefer.