Danny Arnold, Television Producer

LOS ANGELES - Danny Arnold, a two-time Emmy Award winner and the creative mind behind the hit TV show "Barney Miller," is dead at age 70.

Arnold died of heart failure at his Los Angeles home Saturday night, Daily Variety reported.

Arnold won his Emmys for outstanding comedy series. The first came in the 1969-70 season for "My World and Welcome to It," a sitcom loosely based on the work of writer James Thurber.

Arnold won his second Emmy for the 1981-82 season as executive producer of "Barney Miller."

Arnold did a little of everything in Hollywood - film editor, actor, writer and producer - after World War II duty as a Marine in the South Pacific.

He had seven TV sitcoms under his belt by 1985, starting with the last season of "The Real McCoys" in 1963. "Barney Miller," which he created with Theodore J. Flicker, was his biggest hit.