David Jacobs, who more than anyone invented the modern prime-time soap opera when he created “Dallas,” the long-running CBS series about an amoral oil baron and his feuding family, and followed it a year later with “Knots Landing,” died on Sunday in Burbank, Calif.
His son, Aaron, said he died in a hospital from complications of a series of infections.
Mr. Jacobs had also recently received a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Which meant Texas to me,” Mr. Jacobs recalled in a 2008 interview with the Television Academy.
Working with Michael Filerman, an executive at Lorimar Productions, he wrote a script about the wealthy Ewing family.
Persons:
David Jacobs, ”, Aaron, Jacobs, ” Ingmar Bergman’s, ” Mr, Michael Filerman, Ewing
Organizations:
CBS, Television Academy, Lorimar Productions
Locations:
Burbank , Calif, Sweden, Southern California, Texas