On September 29, 69-year-old Nick Wilkinson, a television casting director for ABC and Theatre Communications Group, died of a heart attack on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

Jamie Wooten, a writer and producer on the TV show The Golden Girls, reported and confirmed his death.

Wilkinson was also an avid traveler who cared deeply about animals.

In the 1980s, he worked as a casting director for Theatre Communications Group in New York City. Across America, the location was known as “Central Casting” for theaters.

The deceased afterwards worked for the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in the same capacity before moving on to ABC Television.

He worked for the network in New York and later in Los Angeles, assisting on some of the most important projects in the Movies & Miniseries business, as well as their Daytime branch.

Several A-list performers, including Bruce Willis and Sarah Michelle Gellar, worked with Wilkinson before they were famous, and he helped them climb the success ladder.

Wilkinson became a writer after retiring from casting, directing TV series episodes such as For Your Love and Disney’s Teacher’s Pet, and eventually became a playwright.