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Edwin Sherin (January 15, 1930 – May 4, 2017) was an American director and producer. He is best known as the director and executive producer of the NBC drama series Law & Order (1991–2005). Sherin was born in Danville, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Inwood, Manhattan. He had a sister, Edith Sherin Markson, one of the founders of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Sherin dropped out of DeWitt Clinton High School at 16, worked on a cattle ranch in West Texas, and later graduated from the Fountain Valley School and Brown University. He enlisted in the Navy and fought in the Korean War. Sherin began his career as an actor and later transitioned to directing and producing.