Hogan Sheffer obit

 

RIP: Soap Opera Head Writer Hogan Sheffer Dead at 61

 

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Noted soap opera head writer Hogan Sheffer has died. The former head writer of As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless passed away September, according to SoapHub.

Sheffer took over as head writer at As the World Turns in 2000 and continued there through 2005. During his era at the Proctor & Gamble produced CBS soap opera ATWT won Outstanding Drama Series in 2001 and 2004. Sheffer and his writing team won Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005.

In 2006 Sheffer took over at Days of Our Lives as head writer with Meg Kelly. His writing continued through January, 2008.

In May of that same year Sheffer joined The Young and the Restless as co-head writer with Maria Arena Bell and Scott Hamner. Y&R won the Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team in 2011.  His time at Y&R ended in late 2012.

Hogan Sheffer, an Emmy Award-winning daytime television writer known for his comical one-liners, died in his hometown of York, Pennsylvania on September 28. He was 61.

Sheffer went into cardiac arrest in 2014, and suffered a series of health problems up until his death last week from heart failure.

The veteran writer’s longtime manager, Brad Kramer, told Deadline Sheffer had a “huge heart” and always helped others.

“I met Hogan in 1993. I know I am speaking for countless others when I say Hogan Sheffer will be dearly missed,” Kramer said. “Besides a brilliant creative mind, and the most generous huge heart, Hogan could always and did make you laugh until you were in tears. He would and did do anything to help others.”

Sheffer started out in the industry in the 1980s and worked at DreamWorks as director of screenplay development from 1997 to 2000, under producers Mark Johnson and Elizabeth Cantillon. He was in charge of developing screenplays for films such as My Dog Skip, Galaxy Quest, Home Fries, and What Lies Beneath.

He would later make the transition to daytime TV on As the World Turns, The Young and the Restless, and Days of Our Lives.

While Sheffer loved writing and developing feature films, he thrived on the intensity and year-round schedule of daytime TV, Kramer said.

Sheffer served as head writer on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns. He led his team to four Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team on the program in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005.

He was also head writer on NBC’s Days of Our Lives from 2006 to 2007, and co-head writer on CBS’ Y&R for several years.

Writer

Eileen Davidson, Bryton James, Joshua Morrow, Gina Tognoni, Justin Hartley, Melissa Claire Egan, and Peter Bergman in The Young and the Restless (1973)

The Young and the Restless

TV Series

co-head writer

associate head writer

2008–2013

1063 episodes

 

Days of Our Lives (1965)

Days of Our Lives

5.2

TV Series

writer

head writer

2006–2008

235 episodes

As the World Turns (1956

As the World Turns

6.2

TV Series

associate head writer

writer

head writer ...

2000–2006

297 episodes