TV writer and producer who earned an Academy Award nomination for his first produced screenplay, the well-received melodrama, "Save the Tiger" (1973), which starred Jack Lemmon in a tale of mobsters and reality in the garment business. Shagan is also known for the star-laden holocaust drama, "Voyage of the Damned" (1976)--which earned him a second Oscar nomination--and the Marlon Brando/George C. Scott vehicle, "The Formula" (1980).Shagan worked as an RCA technician at Cape Canaveral (before the first space launch) and a film technician in New York and a grip in Hollywood before joining
