Robert Justman
Robert Harris Justman (born July 13, 1926 in Brooklyn , New York , † May 28, 2008 in Los Angeles ) was an American film producer and assistant director . He was best known for his collaboration with Gene Roddenberry on the television series Starship Enterprise .
Born in 1926, Justman, who served in the US Navy during World War II , worked in the 1950s as an assistant director with, among others, director Robert Aldrich on the production of Rattennest , Maasai and Ardennes in 1944 .
Justman's television career began in the 1950s, including assistant director on several episodes of The Adventures of Superman , Lassie, and Northwest Passage . In 1964, Justman met Roddenberry and was assistant director at The Cage (The Cage) , the first Star Trek pilot episode. He later became a co-producer on the series. In the 1970s Justman produced the television series The Man from Atlantis and in the 1980s the television film Emergency Room . From 1986, Justman worked again with Gene Roddenberry. He produced 17 episodes of the new Star Trek series Starship Enterprise: The Next Century .
Together with producer Herbert F. Solow , with whom he had worked on the first pilot film and the first Star Trek series, he wrote the book Star Trek - The True Story in 1996 , in which both talk about the background to the making, development and production of the Tell a series.
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Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , Pocket Books, 1996
- Star Trek - The Real Story . Translation: Ralph Sander. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1998. ISBN 978-3-453-13367-9
Justman died in 2008 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was married and had two sons and a daughter.
Web links
- Robert Justman in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Robert Justman in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
- Literature by and about Robert Justman in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert H. Justman, 81; a creative force on two 'Star Trek' TV series ( Memento from June 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Justman, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Justman, Robert H .; Justman, Robert Harris (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American assistant director and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City, New York, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 2008 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California, United States |