Viewers who stayed through the end of Nancy Drew on Aug. 2, 2023, saw a short “In Memory” card for Vince Prokop. He was not a member of the cast. He worked behind the camera, in the show’s art department, and he died in November 2022, months before the episode aired.
This page sets out what is publicly known about him, the tribute and his death, and what has not been made public. It was last checked as of Oct. 31, 2026.
Who was Vince Prokop?
Vince Prokop worked in the art department on the CW series. Hidden Remote reported that he was credited as a paint coordinator on 40 episodes of Nancy Drew. The same report noted he was not part of the cast, which is why his name does not appear among the show’s actors.
The same report said Nancy Drew was one of many productions he worked on. It listed credits on Siren, Van Helsing, The Order, When Calls the Heart and Cedar Cove. We could not open his IMDb page to check those credits ourselves, so they are given here as Hidden Remote reported them.
What happened to Vince Prokop?
Vince Prokop died on Nov. 12, 2022. That date comes from a GoFundMe fundraiser a friend set up days later, the same page Hidden Remote cited in its report on the tribute. It says Vincent Prokop “passed away unexpectedly on November 12, 2022.”
The fundraiser does not give a cause of death, and it does not describe his work. It asked for help for his wife and children with the costs that followed, and it describes him as “generous to a fault.”
As of Oct. 31, 2026, our searches of newspaper and funeral-home obituary listings did not turn up a published obituary for him. We also found no statement from his family, the production or a union that names a cause. As far as we could find, his cause of death has not been made public, and this page will not guess at one.
The tribute in “The Ballad of Lives Foregone”
The dedication ran at the end of season 4, episode 10, “The Ballad of Lives Foregone.” The CW’s press release for the episode, as published by SpoilerTV, lists an original air date of Aug. 2, 2023. Kristin Lehman directed it, from a script by Lauriel Harte Marger and Hayley Munoz.
Hidden Remote described the closing card as an “In Memory” tribute. It quoted the message as reading, in part, “Your kindness, generosity, humor, and love will be greatly missed.” Hidden Remote and some other sites spell the title “Lives Forgone,” while SpoilerTV’s headline for the CW press release uses “Foregone.”
Timeline
The tribute aired nine months after his death. The dates below show how his death fits into the last season of the show.
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| July 19 to Dec. 15, 2022 | Season 4 scheduled to film, with its production office in North Vancouver, British Columbia | Directors Guild of Canada BC production list (Aug. 2022, archived) |
| Nov. 12, 2022 | Vince Prokop dies | GoFundMe fundraiser |
| Mid-November 2022 | A friend creates the fundraiser for his family | GoFundMe fundraiser |
| Aug. 2, 2023 | Season 4, episode 10 airs with the “In Memory” card | CW press release; Hidden Remote |
| Aug. 23, 2023 | Series finale, “The Light Between Lives,” airs | CW press release via SpoilerTV |
The guild’s list gives the planned shooting window, not his own work schedule. None of the sources we found says which season 4 episodes he worked on.
A tribute three weeks before the finale
The card for Prokop aired in the show’s final month. Nancy Drew ended with its fourth season, and the series finale followed on Aug. 23, 2023, three weeks after “The Ballad of Lives Foregone.”
Prokop was not a public figure, and this page keeps to what the fundraiser and published reports have said. We will update it if a family statement or a published obituary adds verified details.
