Joe Sachs

Joe Sachs is an American television writer and producer. He has worked extensively on "ER" in both capacities.

Career

Sachs is also a qualified doctor and first became involved with "ER" as a technical advisor midway through the first season. He also has a guest starring role as an Emergency Medical Technician in the first season episode "Motherhood".

Sachs became a writer from the second season onwards. Sachs continued in his role as a technical advisor and writer until the fifth season. During the fifth season he had the additional responsibility of acting as a story editor. He became executive story editor and continued to write episodes for the sixth season, finally giving up his technical advisor role. He then joined the production team and became a supervising producer by the eleventh season. He was promoted to co-executive producer for the thirteenth season and finally became an executive producer for the fourteenth season. As of the close of the fourteenth season he has written 29 episodes.

In 1999 Sachs was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America Award for his work on the episode "Exodus" along with his co-writer Walon Green. In 2001 "ER" was nominated for an Emmy Award for its and Sachs shared the nomination with the other producers.

Filmography

Writer

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