William T. Orr (
27 September 1917 -
25 December 2002) was principally a
television producer, most associated with a string of
western and
detective programs of the 1950s-1970s.
As the first head of
Warner Brothers Television department, he forged a fruitful alliance with
ABC, which resulted in ABC having a number of
prime time hits, such as
Maverick,
77 Sunset Strip, and
F Troop. At the height of this relationship in the early 1960s, Orr had nine programs in prime time simultaneously.
[IMDB bio, written by his son.]
