Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was a novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven US television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files.
Huggins was educated at the University of California, 1935-41. After graduation, he worked as a special representative of the U.S. Civil Service, 1941-43, and later as an industrial engineer, 1943-46.
Huggins' novels include The Double Take (19...
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Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was a novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven US television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files.
Huggins was educated at the University of California, 1935-41. After graduation, he worked as a special representative of the U.S. Civil Service, 1941-43, and later as an industrial engineer, 1943-46.
Huggins' novels include The Double Take (1946), Too Late For Tears (1947) and Lovely Lady, Pity Me (1949).
When Columbia Pictures purchased the rights to Huggins' novel The Double Take in 1948, Huggins signed a contract with the studio to adapt the script into the movie I Love Trouble. From here he entered the movie industry, working as a contract writer at Columbia and RKO Pictures. In 1952, he wrote and directed the film Hangman's Knot, a Randolph Scott western. Afterwards, he worked as a staff writer at Columbia until 1955.
Huggins moved to television in April 1955, when Warner...
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