Scott Brazil

Scott Brazil is best known as the producer of the hit 1980s cop drama "Hill Street Blues," as well as the producer or director of other subsequent popular shows. Brazil began his TV career as a supervising producer, working on the high school basketball drama "The White Shadow" from 1979 through 1981. Immediately afterwards, Brazil landed his career-defining job on the critically-acclaimed cop drama "Hill Street Blues." Serving as producer from 1981 through 1986, Brazil won a pair of Emmy Awards for his work on the show in 1983 and 1984. Brazil would continue to work on popular shows throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including the beach cop drama "Baywatch," teen fantasy "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and Don Johnson action drama "Nash Bridges," and by the early 21st century, landed his next best-known gig, as producer and director of the gritty bad-cop drama "The Shield," in 2002. Brazil would continue to work on the show until his death due to respiratory failure stemming from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Lyme disease.