CLEVELAND, April 28 (UPI) -- Emmy Award-winning TV scriptwriter Jack Hanrahan died Monday in a Cleveland nursing home at age 75.
The Cleveland native and writer for "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In," "Get Smart," "Police Woman" and many other top TV shows of the 1960s and 1970s, was homeless in his later years, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported.
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He returned home penniless in 2006 and lived in a homeless shelter, the newspaper said. Eventually, he was taken to a Veterans Administration hospital, then the nursing home where he died.
No specific cause of death was given, but The Plain Dealer said Hanrahan had several medical problems, including a heart condition.
Funeral arrangements were pending.
