By Bill Trott and Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sam Simon, a co-creator of Fox's long-running hit animated series "The Simpsons" and an ardent philanthropist for animals, died after a battle with colon cancer, his agent said on Monday. Simon won nine Emmy awards for his work as a writer, director and executive producer of "The Simpsons," the situation comedy that premiered in 1989 and won over a global audience with its portrait of a bumbling father and his wayward family. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life." Simon founded the Sam Simon Foundation in 2002 to benefit animals in need and help fund the Save the Children organization. In 1988, he joined producer James Brooks and cartoonist Matt Groening in creating a prime-time series out of "The Simpsons" for Fox's broadcast network.
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