Jerome Coopersmith died at the age of 97. He was a great writer who wrote a musical about Sherlock Holmes in 1965 and more than two dozen episodes of the TV show Hawaii Five-O.

Coopersmith had served in the US Army and was a well-known writer.

His family confirmed the news of his death by saying, “Coopersmith died peacefully on Friday in Rochester, New York.”

Coopersmith was an honored World War II veteran who got a Purple Heart for his service. He joined the US Army in 1943 and served for two years. In 1945, he left the army.

Then, in 1947, he started writing, and The Hollywood Reporter says that he worked with Horton Foote to write quiz shows and history shows for TV, such as The Gabby Hayes Show and Johnny Jupiter, in the early 1950s.

Coopersmith wrote two full-length movies and almost 30 normal episodes of the TV show Hawaii Five-O.

The Andros Target, which starred James Sutorius and was written by a famous writer, was a New York newspaper thriller that ran for only 13 episodes in 1977.

In 1966 and 1967, he wrote The Apple Tree, which Mike Nichols directed and made a big hit on Broadway.

Jerome Coopersmith’s grandson and daughters Amy and Jill are the only ones who care about him now.