Sean Catherine Derek

American television producer (born 1953)

Sean Catherine Derek (born October 16, 1953)^[1] is an American writer, story editor and television producer. She is the daughter of John Derek and Pati Behrs.

Career

Her screenwriting debut, Foodfight!, was released in 2012. She wrote the script for the fourth BIONICLE movie The Legend Reborn. Derek was also the writer for the first Zhu Zhu Pets straight-to-DVD film Quest for Zhu.

Derek worked at Hanna Barbera Productions for shows like The Smurfs and Captain Planet, she was also a story Editor for both shows. Derek was also a story editor/writer of Batman: The Animated Series. But many Batman scripts she worked on weren't approved by Standards and Practices. Episode P.O.V was one of them.

Here are some of the Smurfs shorts and episodes Sean Catherine Derek worked on.

Master Scruple (short) Written by Sean Catherine Derek (Season 6)
Don Smurfo (short) Written by Sean Catherine Derek (Season 6)
The Last Whippoorwill (short) – Written by Richard Fogel and Sean Catherine Derek (Season 6)
Swapping Smurfs (Episode) – Written by Sean Catherine Derek (Season 7)
Timber Smurf (short) – Written by Sean Catherine Derek and Richard Fogel (Season 7)
Sky Scraper Smurfs (short) – Written by Sean Catherine Derek (Season 7)
Soothsayer Smurfette (episode) – Story by Sean Catherine Derek and Frances Novier. Teleplay by Frances Novier (Season 7).

Notes

Wrote an autobiography in 1982 titled Cast of Characters about her three famous stepmothers (Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and Bo Derek) and her father, John Derek, with whom she had an unhappy relationship.^[2] She also helped Evans write her memoirs in 2011.^[3]
She is the great-grandniece of Leo Tolstoy.^[4]
She has won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program in her work on Batman: The Animated Series.^[5]

References

^ International News Service (October 18, 1953). "John Derek Father". The Arizona Republic. p. 2.
^ Lavin, Cheryl (October 29, 1982). "Derek's daughter details unhappy life with father". Ottawa Citizen.
^ Evans, Linda (2016). Recipes for Life: My Memories. Post Hill Press. ISBN 9781618686930.
^ Derek, Sean Catherine (1982). Cast of Characters. Dorchester Publishing. ISBN 9780843911268.
^ Associated Press (May 28, 1993). "Lucci Loses Emmy for 14th Time". Los Angeles Times.