Famous American television writer, producer and editor Jeff Vlaming, who worked on 41 TV series including The X-Files, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Hannibal and The 100, has died at the age of 63.
Sci-fi veteran Vlaming died at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena on January 30 after being diagnosed with cancer in early 2021. It has been reported Hollywood Reporter his brother, Jonathan Vlaming.
Vlaming most recently served as writer and executive producer for the final three seasons of The CW’s The 100 (2018–2020) and executive producer and writer on NBC’s The Wreckage in 2021.
Vlaming was the executive producer and writer of The CW’s The Reaper from 2007 to 2009, and two other shows, MTV’s Teen Wolf in 2011 and Robert Kirkman’s Cast Away on Cinemax in 2016-2017. He was a co-producer and writer.
He said he “loves” writing in an interview for the TV Writer podcast in 2021.
Growing up in Edina, Minnesota, Jeffrey Laird Vlaming earned a bachelor’s degree in television production from the University of Minnesota. After attending an actor’s drama class, inspired by William H. Macy to write a screenplay, he quit his job as advertising art director and moved to Los Angeles.
Vlaming wrote episodes of the American sitcom Weird Science and The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., then became a staff writer on the third season of The X-Files (1995–96) and worked on the final season (1996–97).
He spent two seasons as an assistant manager on NBC’s Hannibal in 2014-2015.
His credits include Rescue 77, Murder in Small Town X, NCIS, Touching Evil, Xena: Warrior Princess and Numbers. He loved collaborating with director Michael Apted.
Vlaming also played in a punk band, taught an evening TV drama writing class at the University of Southern California, and has made several sketches on his Twitter account.