Charles B. Fitzsimons

Actor and producer Charles B. Fitzsimons's most famous role took place far from the public limelight. As executive director of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) from 1981 until 1999, he had a great influence on the organization's expansion into one of Hollywood's most active and powerful guilds. In the middle of his long tenure, he was rewarded in 1989 with a lifetime membership. The younger brother of actress Maureen O'Hara, he got the chance to work with her on screen in "The Quiet Man," the beloved 1952 romantic comedy starring John Wayne. As a producer, his credits were all over the map. Before Fitzsimons died in 2001, he helped oversee the original TV series "Batman," a number of episodes of the mid-1980s "Casablanca" TV re-imagining starring David Soul, and another offshoot series a decade earlier based on the Dean Martin film series "Matt Helm." Fitzsimons's longest producing gigs were for the psychic nanny comedy "Nanny and the Professor" (54 episodes) and the Amazonian heroine series "The New Adventures of Wonder Woman" (46 episodes).