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Donald Douglas, an Emmy-nominated film editor who worked on Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the Angela Lansbury crime series Murder, She Wrote, died Oct. 3 after a brief illness in Greeley, Colorado, his family announced. He was 87.
After a stint working in the tool-and-die industry, Douglas accepted an offer from William Hanna in the early 1960s to join Hanna-Barbera Productions, and he went on to edit episodes of The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Jonny Quest and cartoons featuring Yogi Bear, Peter Potamus, Magilla Gorilla, Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant.
Douglas received his first Emmy nom in 1984 for his work on the miniseries George Washington, starring Barry Bostwick, then picked up another a year later for editing the 90-minute pilot episode of Murder, She Wrote, “The Murder of Sherlock Holmes.” He spent parts of seven seasons on the landmark CBS series.
He edited other series including Marcus Welby, M.D., The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Kojak, Baretta and The Eddie Capra Mysteries.
A native of Kendall, Florida, Douglas enlisted in the Air Force at age 17 and served four years as a radar operator in Alaska during the Korean War.
Survivors include his wife of 41 years, Rosemary; his children, Sandra, Michael, Liane and Paul; stepson William; and eight grandchildren.
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