Harriet Margulies, who spent nearly two decades as a producer’s assistant and audience liaison for the CBS drama NCIS, died Oct. 30 in Northridge after suffering a stroke, a network spokesperson announced. She was 94.
Born in Brooklyn, Margulies started out as a publicist in New York and then Los Angeles. She became a production assistant in the 1970s for Universal Television, where she worked on such shows as Kojak, Magnum, P.I. and Quantum Leap.