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| children = Three }} Eric Bercovici (February 27, 1933 – February 9, 2014) was an American television/film producer and screenwriter. He was best known for producing and adapting the screenplay for the 1980 television miniseries ''Shōgun''.〔〔 Born in New York City in 1933 to screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, he studied theater at Yale University. His career had barely begun when his father was blacklisted from the late 1940s through the late 1950s. Eric Bercovici then went to Europe to work on films, returning to the U.S. in 1965. He then began writing episodes of ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''I Spy'', and ''The Danny Thomas Hour''. He wrote the screenplays for the 1968 films ''Hell in the Pacific'' and ''Day of the Evil Gun''. In the 1970s, he wrote episodes for ''Hawaii Five-O'' and created the series ''Assignment Vienna'' and its pilot ''Assignment: Munich''. In 1977, he adapted John Ehrlichman's novel, ''The Company'', into a miniseries titled ''Washington: Behind Closed Doors''.〔〔 In 1980, Bercovici adapted James Clavell's 1975 novel, ''Shōgun'', about an English seaman marooned in 17th century Japan, into a nine-hour miniseries of the same name. He was also a producer of the series. ''Shōgun'' won three of its 14 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Miniseries,〔(Eric Bercovici | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences )〕 and all three of its Golden Globe nominations, including Best TV Series – Drama.〔 At the time, it was also one of the highest-rated miniseries in television history, second only to ''Roots''.〔 Bercovici would finish out the 1980s and his writing/producing career for such series as ''McClain's Law'', ''Chicago Story'' and ''Noble House'', also based on a Clavell novel.〔 When not writing screenplays, Bercovici wrote crime novels.〔 In February 2014, he died of a heart attack at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii. He was 80. He was survived by his wife, Chiho Adachi, whom he met while making ''Shōgun'', and three sons from previous marriages, Jacob Bercovici, Hilary Bercovici and Luca Bercovici.〔(Eric Bercovici dies at 80; screenwriter made 'Shogun' miniseries )〕〔(Eric Bercovici, Emmy-Winning Writer-Producer of Miniseries Including ‘Shogun,’ Dies at 80 )〕 He was formerly married to actress Karen Berger. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Bercovici」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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