Career
Belson"s writing credits include the Steven Spielberg films Always and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, several episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and Gomer Pyle, United States.M.C. and I Spy. Belson also helped produce The Drew Carey Show, The Norm Show and The Tracey Ullman Show. Belson died in Los Angeles, California on October 10, 2006, after a long battle with prostate cancer.