Don Mischer, one of the preeminent live event directors of the past six decades, died peacefully in his sleep April 11 in Los Angeles. The 15-time Emmy winner was 85.
Mischer did not stop working until the end and passed away just as he was finally planning to retire for good.
“I want you to know that, after more than six decades in television, I will be doing my last show tomorrow on Saturday, April 5th here in Los Angeles,” he told Deadline last week. “I started at the PBS station in Austin at the University of Texas campus in 1963, and I turned 85 last week. Man, it feels like time has just flown by.”
