How much is Donald Bellisario worth?
Donald Bellisario Net Worth: $250 Million. Donald Bellisario net worth: Donald Bellisario is a prolific American television producer who has a net worth of $250 million. Donald Bellisario earned his fortune by creating iconic television shows which include the g.
Bellisario, understandably, was awarded a star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. This was actually referenced and shown in Season 9 of “JAG”, during the episode “Trojan Horse”.
Bellisario’s first job after graduating was as a copywriter for an advertising agency. Just three years later Bellisario was made creative director of the Bloom Agency in Dallas, Texas. After this, in the early 1970s, Bellisario moved from Pennsylvania to Hollywood to pursue his dream of becoming a screenwriter.
Bellisario also received a Visionary Award at the UCLA Neurosurgery Visionary Ball on October 27, 2016. Penn State’s University Board of Trustees voted to rename their College of Communications to the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications on April 21, 2017, further recognizing Bellisario as one of their topflight alumni.
Bellisario created (or co-created) such popular TV series as “Magnum, P.I.”, “Airwolf”, “Quantum Leap”, “JAG,” as well as “NCIS”. He was also a writer and producer on “Black Sheep Squadron”, not to mention the cult classic “Battlestar Galactica” series during its original run.
Who is Michael Bellisario married to?
Bellisario married Lynn Halpern, in 1979 and they divorced in 1984. They had a son, Michael Bellisario, on April 7, 1980 (had a recurring role as Midshipman Michael Roberts on JAG and played Charles “Chip” Sterling on NCIS).
Bellisario earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Pennsylvania State University in 1961.
Bellisario received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004, which was shown in a Season 9 JAG episode, “Trojan Horse”. In an interview with Sci-Fi Channel in the late 1990s, Bellisario said he was inspired to create Quantum Leap in 1988 after reading a novel about time travel. His service alongside John F. Kennedy’s lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was the basis for the Quantum Leap fifth season double-length episode “Lee Harvey Oswald” (originally aired September 22, 1992).
In 2006, Bellisario endowed a $1 million Trustee Matching Scholarship in the Penn State College of Communications. He recalled:
He married Deborah Pratt, known for her character in Bellisario’s Airwolf, in 1984 and they divorced in 1991. They had two children: Troian (born October 28, 1985) and Nicholas (born August 27, 1991). Troian portrayed Sarah McGee on NCIS, Teresa on Quantum Leap, and Erin on JAG, but has become best known for her 2010–2017 role as Spencer Hastings on Pretty Little Liars, a series her father did not produce.
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