Biography
Mel Swope is a television producer and executive. His credits include producer on the series Fame (1982–1983) and Miami Vice (1984), as well as the television films The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988). He has also served as executive in charge of production on numerous projects, including 12 Angry Men (1997) and Inherit the Wind (1999).
Swope received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, for Police Story (1977), Fame (1982 and 1983) and Miami Vice (1985). He was the first Gilliland Chair of Telecommunications at San Jose State University.
