Ed Sherin, an Emmy-winning “Law & Order” executive producer and acclaimed Broadway director has died. He was 87.
The experienced director, whose credits include the films “Valdez is Coming” and “Glory Boy (aka My Old Man’s Place)” as well as TV shows like “Hill Street Blues,” “Moonlighting” and “L.A. Law,” was a member of the Directors’ Guild of America for more than 50 years. Sherin took home one Emmy Award and eight nominations for his work as executive producer and director on Dick Wolf’s police procedural “Law & Order.”
For his extensive work in theater, Sherin won a Drama Desk Award for The Great White Hope and a Tony nomination for “Find Your Way Home,” as well as the New York Drama Critics Award and an Off-Broadway Obie Award.