Roy Huggins

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Roy Huggins (born July 18, 1914 in Litelle , California , † April 3, 2002 in Santa Monica , California) was an American writer , producer and writer, for some of the most successful television series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Maverick , on the run and just call - Rockford was responsible.

life and career

Huggins studied political science at the University of California in Los Angeles . He was initially married to Bonnie Porter and later to actress Adele Mara .

In 1948 Columbia acquired the film rights to Huggins' first novel, The Double Take , which Huggins himself adapted and which was released in theaters under the title I Love Trouble . From then on, Huggins worked as a studio writer for Columbia and RKO . In 1952 he directed a self-scripted film, Hangman's Knot , with Randolph Scott and Donna Reed . For the Western with the gun in his hand (Gun Fury) from 1953, Huggins wrote with Irving Wallace the script. Donna Reed starred alongside Rock Hudson .

In 1955 he was hired by Warner Brothers as a television producer. In the years that followed, he created the cult television series Maverick , 77 Sunset Strip and Auf der Flucht with David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble , who all ran on ABC .

From 1963 through the 1980s, Huggins was vice president of Universal's television division . During these years he created together with Stephen J. Cannell for the leading actor from Maverick , James Garner , the character of Jim Rockford for the series Detective Rockford - a call is enough and he was the creative force behind other series such as Alias ​​Smith and Jones and The People from Shiloh Ranch .

About the commercial art of television, Huggins said that it was made for a mass audience and for the sake of profit, but that from time to time it was able to achieve truth and beauty, the more often the more freedom there was.

In 1939, Huggins was a member of the Communist Party for a year and was interviewed by the Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 . He named 19 former comrades, but only those who were already known to the committee.

literature

  • Roy Huggins. In: Paul Green Roy Huggins - Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files , McFarland, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William H. Honan: Roy Huggins, Creator of Hits In TV's First Years, Dies at 87th New York Times, April 6, 2002, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ biography at IMDb. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Huggins, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Litelle , California
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2002
Place of death Santa Monica , California