Michael Filerman, an executive at Lorimar Productions who helped develop the TV dramas DALLAS, KNOTS LANDING AND FALCON CREST before moving on to produce Broadway plays, died January 25 in Los Angeles. He was 75.A Chicago native born May 4, 1938, Filerman earned a degree in communication arts from the University of Illinois in 1960.
While serving in the Army Reserve, he met Fred Silverman, who soon began making his mark as a television executive. Silverman offered Filerman a job at Chicago's WGN-TV as a general programming executive in 1962, then brought him to CBS in New York as director of the network's daytime TV programs in 1967.