First, he and his kinfolk escaped Castro's Cuba... as a kid he made scripted Super-8 movies with his dad's camera, a horror film and one about a Marvel-inspired character... by the 80s he was in L.A., making more attention-getting stuff... by the 2000s he'd been an exec on "24" (winning an Emmy) and its sequels, co-created Fox's AI drama "NeXt," and exec'ed for "Dexter," "ST:Enterprise" (where he broke up the writers-room with fabulous impressions of Bill Shatner), and "American Horror Story"... from cancer in Pasadena; 62.
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