Bud Yorkin

Bud Yorkin, who broke into television as a repairman and less than a decade later teamed with the producer Norman Lear to create pioneering, provocative and singularly successful satirical series including “All in the Family,” died in August 2015 at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 89. Yorkin and his first wife, Peg, divorced in 1984. He was survived by his second wife, the actress Cynthia Sikes Yorkin; two children from his first marriage, David and Nicole Yorkin; two from his second, Michael and Jessica Yorkin; two sisters, Ruth Drazen and Martha Berman; and four grandchildren. Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1948 after serving in the Navy. He and Norman Lear worked together to found Tandem Productions - a partnership which lasted more than two decades - and later formed a partnership with Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein.