Biografia
Michael Fisher wrote and produced over 500 hours of prime-time television and theatrical films, including "Spenser for Hire," "Starsky & Hutch," "Fantasy Island," and "Mission: Impossible." In 1991, he published his debut novel, Cries from the Darkness, followed by a sequel, The Nightmare Man. In 1997, he produced a made-for-TV movie in Fiji based on his novels. He was the son of Steve Fisher, a prolific pulp fiction, film, and TV writer whose original story for the 1943 Cary Grant film "Destination Tokyo" earned an Academy Award nomination in 1944. Michael Fisher was born on May 1, 1940, in New York City to Steve Fisher and Edythe (Seimes) Fisher. He was raised in Beverly Hills and Van Nuys, California. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from 1957 to 1963. In September 1969, he married Helen Mary Brennan. They raised their family in Woodlands Hills, California; Sydney, New South Wales; Paradise Point, Queensland, Australia; and Rye, New York. He relocated to Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 2005.