Over the course of three decades, Jeff Vlaming contributed to 41 TV shows, including The X-Files, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Hannibal, and The 100. He was a very employable TV writer, producer, and story editor. He was 63.
Science fiction expert Vlaming passed away on January 30 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena after being given a cancer diagnosis in early 2021, according to his brother Jonathan Vlaming, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter.
Most recently, Vlaming worked as an executive producer and writer on NBC’s Debris in 2021 as well as The CW’s The 100’s final three seasons (2018–20).
He co-wrote “White Tulip,” which many viewers view as the series’ most important episode, with showrunner J.H. Wyman while working as an executive producer on Fox’s Fringe in 2009–2010.
The native of Minnesota has previously worked as a co-executive producer and writer on two other projects, including the MTV relaunch of Teen Wolf in 2011 and Robert Kirkman’s Outcast at Cinemax in 2016–17. She also served as a supervising producer and writer on The CW’s Reaper from 2007–2009.
He declared he “adored” writing in a 2021 interview for the TV Writer podcast.
Jeffrey Laird Vlaming, a native of Edina, Minnesota, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in television production. After taking a drama workshop given by William H. Macy, the actor encouraged the man to write scripts, so the man quit his job as an advertising graphic director and moved to Los Angeles.
He spent a year working full-time on spec projects before selling one to Northern Exposure in 1992. The following year, he joined the writing crew of the CBS drama for its fourth season.
Before joining the team of Fox’s The X-Files for its third season (1995–1996) and working on the final season (1996–1997) of ABC’s Lois & Clark, Vlaming penned episodes of the USA sitcom Weird Science and The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
In 2014–15, he served as co–executive producer for two seasons of NBC’s Hannibal.
Rescue 77, Murder in Small Town X, NCIS, Touching Evil, Ronald D. Moore’s revival of Battlestar Galactica, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Numbers were among the shows he worked on. He sold a number of film concepts and cherished his close collaboration with Michael Apted.
In addition, Vlaming performed in a punk band, taught a night course at USC on writing for TV dramas, and produced a tonne of hilarious sketches for his Twitter account.
