Donald P. Bellisario
Donald P. Bellisario was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States on August 8th, 1935 and is the TV Producer. At the age of 88, Donald P. Bellisario biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Donald Paul Bellisario (born August 8, 1935) is an American television producer and screenwriter who produced and occasionally wrote episodes for the television show Magnum, P.I.
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982), Airwolf (1984), Quantum Leap (1989), and NCIS (2004).
Military veterans have often been included in stories.
Early life
Bellisario was born in Cokeburg, Pennsylvania, to an Italian-American father and a Serbian-American mother. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1955 to 1959 and attained the rank of sergeant. He encountered American Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald while serving in the Marines for a brief period.
Bellisario earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Pennsylvania State University in 1961.
Bellisario began as an advertising copywriter in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and three years later, became the Bloom Agency in Dallas, Texas. After rising to senior vice president after eight years, he moved to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting and production.
Personal life
Bellisario married Margaret Schaffran in 1956, but they divorced in 1974. They had four children, Joy Bellisario-Jenkins (born c. 1956), David Bellisario-Ingham (born c. 1961) and Julie Bellisario-Watson (producer on NCIS).
Bellisario married Lynn Halpern in 1979 and divorced in 1984. Michael Bellisario, the couple's son, was born on April 7, 1980. Michael Roberts, a Midshipman, appeared on JAG and portrayed Charles "Chip" Sterling on NCIS.
In 1984, he married Deborah Pratt, who was known for her role in Bellisario's Airwolf, and they divorced in 1991. Troian (born October 28, 1985) and Nicholas (born August 27, 1991). Troian portrayed Sarah McGee on NCIS, Teresa on Quantum Leap, and Erin on JAG, but she became best known for her role on Pretty Little Liars, a series her father did not produce from 2010 to 2017.
On November 27, 1998, Bellisario married Vivienne Murray (née Lee). Chad and Sean Murray, the former actor who plays Timothy McGee on NCIS, gained two steps from his marriage.
Television career
Bellisario developed some of their production methods, for example, using a small pool of actors for his numerous projects after working under such television directors as Glen A. Larson and Stephen J. Cannell. Magnum, P.I., Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS were all developed or co-created by him. He served as a writer and producer on Black Sheep Squadron and the original Battlestar Galactica. Last Rites, he wrote and directed the 1988 feature film.
Many of Bellisario's protagonists are current or former members of the US armed forces. In Magnum, P.I., Tom Selleck's character. In Quantum Leap, a former Navy Academy graduate and Vietnam warfighter, and former Naval Intelligence officer; Jan-Michael Vincent's character in Airwolf was a Vietnam veteran; and NCIS' chief, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, was a former Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and former Naval Aviator; and Monty Jethro Gibbs, Jr., was a retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and veteran; and the original Several of his main characters' birthdays are scheduled on August 8.
Bellisario appeared on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004, which was also seen in "Trojan Horse" by Season 9 JAG. Bellisario said he was inspired to design Quantum Leap in 1988 after reading a book about time travel in an interview with Sci-Fi Channel in the late 1990s. The Quantum Leap fifth season double-length episode "Lee Harvey Oswald," co-produced by John F. Kennedy's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, was the basis for Lee Harvey Oswald's appearance (originally broadcast on September 22, 1992).
Bellisario resigned in 2007 after a lot of drama surrounding actor Mark Harmon's departure from NCIS. Despite the fact that he maintains the name executive producer, he hasn't had any real creative or executive involvement with NCIS since then. Bellisario later sued CBS over the development of NCIS: Los Angeles, alleging that his employment with the network entitles him to the first right to produce any NCIS spin off, as well as a s share of the company's earnings. The lawsuit was settled before the 2011 trial for an undisclosed sum. After the Roman general Belisarius, of which "Bellisario" is an Italian-language version, Bellisario's production firm was dubbed "Belisarius Productions."