Joyce Eliason

Joyce Eliason (May 14, 1934 – January 10, 2022) was an American television writer and producer. She was best known for writing TV miniseries including Titanic and The Last Don, and for the TV film The Jacksons: An American Dream. Eliason was one of the writers for the hit television series Love, American Style and wrote her first screenplay Tell Me a Riddle in 1980. Eliason wrote two books before becoming a screenwriter, Fresh Meat/Warm Weather in 1974 and Laid Out in 1976. She died on January 10, 2022, at the age of 87. Selected filmography Eliason was principally a writer, but she also frequently served as a producer on films which she has written. A partial filmography is shown below. Writer