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name: "Bob Rosenfarb"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "16 September 1951"
died: "3 March 2026"
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average_fi1m_score: 84
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:03.736454+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bob Rosenfarb

Writer. Born 16 September 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Died 3 March 2026.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 16 September 1951, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- **Died:** 3 March 2026
- **Active:** 1982–1985

## Biography

Bob Rosenfarb was an American television writer and producer. Born Robert Martin Rosenfarb in Brooklyn on 16 September 1951 and raised in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, he graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University before moving to Los Angeles in 1978. He began his career selling a script for a 1982 episode of *Archie Bunker’s Place* after working as a bartender and performing stand-up.

Rosenfarb contributed to *Cagney & Lacey* (story, 1986) and *The Golden Girls* (writer and story editor, 1986–87). He wrote 19 episodes of *Head of the Class* (1987–89) and worked on the final two seasons of *Who’s the Boss?* (1990–92) as writer and supervising producer. He spent six seasons on *Step by Step* (1992–98) in writing and producing roles.

His other credits include episodes of *St. Elsewhere*, animated series such as *The Get Along Gang* and *Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats*, *The Ellen Burstyn Show*, *Free Spirit* and *The Upper Hand*. Rosenfarb died on 3 March 2026, aged 74.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, deadline.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Golden Girls* (1985), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)
- *Cagney & Lacey* (1982), Fi1m 81, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/cagney-and-lacey.md)

## Also known for

- *Step by Step* (1991), Writer
- *Who's the Boss?* (1984), Writer
- *Head of the Class* (1986), Writer

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