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John Furia Jr. was a screen and TV writer who wrote for popular series including Bonanza, The Waltons, and Hawaii Five-O, among many others. A former president of the Writers Guild of America West, Furia was also a founding chairman of USC’s School of Cinema-Television Writing Division and was a full professor there, teaching screen and TV writing.
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