William Self Dies

William Self, a prolific producer who brought a long list of successful shows to television — “Daniel Boone,” “Peyton Place,” “Batman” and “M*A*S*H” among them — transforming 20th Century-Fox Television into a leading supplier of programming to the networks in the 1960s and ’70s, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

The cause was a heart attack, his daughter, Barbara Malone, said.

Mr. Self, like many other struggling actors in the 1940s, discovered that Hollywood can be a tough place to make a living, but unlike most of the competition, he played a top-class game of tennis that nourished relationships with the likes of the studio boss Jack Warner and Charlie Chaplin.

Rest In Peace, William