Peggy O'Shea

Mary Margaret "Peggy" O'Shea (October 3, 1922 – May 1, 2014) was an American screenwriter for soap operas.

Born in Niagara Falls, New York, she began writing for television with her former husband Lou Shaw for such series as Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, and Have Gun – Will Travel. She would later serve as head writer for One Life to Live from 1979 to 1983, Capitol from 1983 to 1984, and again for OLTL from 1984 to 1987. She also wrote for Peyton Place. She and husband Lou wrote the script of The Pearl Necklace ( with Hazel Court and Edward Truex), for a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.She won a Writers Guild of America Award and a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on OLTL. She was also nominated for a total of four WGA Awards and five Daytime Emmys.[1][2]

While writing for OLTL, O'Shea lived in New York City, but she would move to live in Los Angeles. On May 1, 2014, she died of complications from a stroke. She was 91. She was survived by a son from her marriage to Shaw.[1][2]

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards

WINS

  • (1987; Best Writing; One Life to Live)

NOMINATIONS

  • (1980, 1981, 1982 & 1983; Best Writing; One Life to Live)

Writers Guild of America Award

WINS

  • (1986 season; One Life to Live)

NOMINATIONS

  • (1979 & 1987 seasons; One Life to Live)
  • (1984 season; Capitol)

Head writing tenure
Preceded by
Gordon Russell
Sam Hall		 Head Writer of One Life to Live
(with Sam Hall)
March 1980 — May 1982		 Succeeded by
Sam Hall
Henry Slesar
Preceded by
John William Corrington
Joyce Hooper Corrington		 Head Writer of Capitol
1983 — 1984		 Succeeded by
Henry Slesar
Preceded by
John William Corrington
Joyce Hooper Corrington		 Head Writer of One Life to Live
(with Sam Hall: December 1983 — June 1984)
December 1983 — June 1987		 Succeeded by
S. Michael Schnessel
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References
  1. Peggy O'Shea Dead at 91
  2. Peggy O’Shea, Head Writer for ‘One Life to Live,’ Dies at 91


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